Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

In order to keep a clear and memorable link between my ancillary texts and my main product i used the same character through-out. The main focus of the documentary is Brad, so i used an image of Brad alone in my poster and and also incorporated a photo of brad in my TV Listings double page spread. I kept the setting for my photo on my poster closely related to school life, by using an iconic area of a school - the hall. Luckily, on the day i took my photo exams were taking place so all of the chairs and tables were set out. This really helped the link between my poster and main product because it is focusing on the run up to GCSE exams being taken. Brad is also alone in the photo, giving the impression he is going to be one of a kind in the documentary where he is the main focus. The channelled area of lighting also helps this emphasis on the connection because it gives the impression it is all about him.

In my opinion, keeping links which emphasis the theme and type of documentary between the ancillary tasks and main product is important because it emphasises exactly what the documentary is going to be like. Because of this, instead of having a plain background for the double page spread or a large picture of brad, i used a picture of pencils to go with the whole school theme. I also put the heading 'Teaching Teens' in a font which almost looks like it could be somebodies handwriting to further emphasise this. I used snapshots from the documentary within the double page spread to give the readers an idea of what they are going to see, to intrigue them and to closely link the two. In my opinion, snapshots of actual scenes from the documentary work better then staged or posed photos because it shows what the documentary contains. The snapshots are also very useful in creating a link between the main product because each character is in the same clothes and setting of the documentary. For example, if the main character was to be in a staged photo, differant clothes or setting to the documentary the link between the two would not be as clear and the theme would not be as consistent.
My article stayed very much on the topic of what the first episode would consist of to inform the reader exactly what they are going to watch. Although i used different fonts for each ancillary task and the main product, much of the font is kept white so it is recognisable. I emphasised quotes from the interviews in the documentary, making them a different font, size and colour. I made sure the quotes were exactly the same as what is said in the documentary to create a memorable link, and also used the colour blue in relation to the colour blue being Hove Parks colour scheme.