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

When creating a film, you need to make sure that all the aspects of the film and promotion are linked together so that the connections between the film and products are clear and obvious; this was clear when I was looking at existing products.

All three of our final products are linked in several different ways;

• Characters/cast – Our cast appear in all of our final products. Each image we chose we had chosen for a certain reason and specifically for each product. The images we show Alice (a.k.a Catherine) she is always staring forward, with an intense stare but also a hint that there is something vacant from her.

Binding

After a long time deciding we have finally chosen our film name. When deciding, we each had our own ideas on what it should be. As a group we decided that we only wanted the title to be one word, so therefore this word would have to encompass the narrative of our teaser trailer. We wanted a title that would link in with the idea of two people being joined together, but one that suggests the potential evil of the friendship. We finally decided on "Binding", because binding relates to friendship becoming too close and the bonds of friendship. Binding also links to the idea of ivy constricting and eventually killing plants such as trees.

Now we have our film name, I have finished the title design. This will be used in the teaser trailer, poster and website. This is because in real films such as Jaws the title will be used for all products. It links all of the products together.

Here are a couple of designs for our title design that I have been working on. The title design will be used in all of our final products; teaser trailer, film poster and website. The design will need to be suitable for the film and coincide with the other themes. Our favourite design so far is the Ivy design, connoting constriction and corruption through the references to poisonous ivy.

Nat