Evaluation part 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

I feel my main product was very effective. Due to being a very low budget film and being an unknown editor I feel it would be very hard to gain coverage and exploration from more known distributors.

Some of the reasons I feel it would be hard to gain distribution from known people in the media industry are due to the fact:

• I don’t really have any well known actors in my film which are big known names people want to invest in.
• I am not particularly a well known professional director which people know of.

Some of the things I could do if I wanted to increase my chances of becoming more known and distributed would be to simply release my trailer and movie poster at the same time.

• Take advantage of free media sharing sites such a vimeo.com and youtube.com as you can see from my media research coursework I have explored a few videos from there which I have shared and gathered experience from. If I was to do this also I could maybe also get promoted and get noticed.
• Little white lies would be very impressed with my media product. Having directed this trailer for the first time ever I have produced such work I feel they would see a lot of potential in a new director like me. Maybe they would give me some more coverage and promote my film poster.

To conclude my thoughts for my main product and ancillary texts I feel my movie could be a very good example of how my media product compliments itself regarding having such a strong story line which people could relate to.

I feel my media product is very unique. I have not really seen any other films of this sort where a fairly normal film can turn into a very gruesome film comparing to the likes of SAW. If I was to compare SAW and Shifty I would feel it wouldn’t be possible to make this from that combination.

Overall my product and ancillary texts are very well organized. Everything matches the mis en scene and overall storyline. The theme is the same throughout, my fonts and texts all relate to each other in the movie trailer and film posters. I feel my main product and ancillary texts are very successful.