Conventions for ancillary products. Brett Tinnion
Jun 27, 2015
Conventions for ancillary products.
Brett Tinnion
Professional Poster
Long shot of the main characters.
Conventional movie credits. sans serif to make it easy to read.
The main title of the film.Sans serif font and bright
colours.
‘From the people who bought you’to draw people in.
‘Coming Soon’ to tellyou to keep a look
out because the filmwill be out soon. Logo of the production company
and other logos.
How my poster is conventional.
Long shot of the maincharacters, this is
to show clearly to the audiencethat they are nerds as they are wearing
stereotypical nerdy clothing. In every poster there is a picture
of the main characters.
The main title of the filmis the biggest text on the poster to make it
stand out. It is in sans seriffont to make it easy to read and is
bright red to make it stand out.
A quote from a newspaper is conventional,I decided to use the New York Times because
it is a well respected newspaper and willtherefore make people want to go and watch it.It is in sans serif font to make it easy to read.
The slogan for our film here. It is a mysterious
and makes the audience want to know what there mission is. It will make
people want to go and see it. Sans serif font to make
it easy to read and the black furthermore makes
it easy to read.
Film credits at the bottom of the pageto show the production company
etc. Sans serif font to make it easy to read. Credits make the poster look a lot moreconventional because they are used in
every poster.
Coming soon to show when the film is coming
out. This is used in the posterbecause people want to knowwhen they can come and seethe film. It is conventional asit is used in every film poster. Production company
logo to show who madethe film. They use this because
people become fans of companies so theywould want to go see this
I have created a house style in my poster by using consistent colours, red, black and white.It follows conventions because it has a quote,image, slogan, credits and when it is coming
out.
I have chosen for the actors to be holdingdifferent props. Two of the three nerds
areholding nerdy items like a lightsaber and school books whereas one is holding a crate of beer. This gives a bit of the
storyline and this is conventionalfor the image to give away a bit of the
plot.
My poster is conventional because it creates a house style like the Superbad poster. It also has a long shot image of the main
characters. The title scene is in sans serif font and is the biggest font on the page to make it stand out. There are also movie credit fonts at the bottom these are conventional because they are used in every film poster. Finally, the coming soon is also conventional
as in everyfilm poster there is either a release date or coming soon.
Professional Magazine
Main mast head. Bold and the biggesttext on the screen to make it stand out.
Lots of coverlinesto show to the audience
that there is a lotof articles in the magazine.
Website, issue numberand date is very
conventional.
Barcode and logo of company.
Main article pull quote, to make the reader wantto read more and also
a brief introduction to the article, which is conventional.
Long shot of a provocatively dressgirl who is in the main article of the
magazine. Her hand is bleeding whichmakes people want to read more as
they want to know why her hand is bleeding.
More coverlines
More coverlines
How my magazine is conventional.Website of the magazine,
date and issue number. Thisis conventional as it used
in all magazines.
Title of the article followedby a brief description of what
is in the article. This is conventionalas many magazines have lots of
coverlines.
Coverlines on the right andleft of the magazine is conventionalas it shows the reader that there is
lots to read in the magazine.
Mast head will stand out as itused red and black font colourwhich contrast together and
will therefore stand it. It is in sansserif font to make it stand out further
and make it easier to read.
Main story of the magazine is the biggesttext on the magazine except the mast
head. There is also a brief description of the article, which will make people want
to read it. The text is sans serif fontto make it easy to read. It is
conventional for the main articleto have a brief description as it makes
people want to read the article.Barcode which is
conventional for all magazines
Mid shot of the person who is the mainfocus of the magazine. He is dressed ina suit to show that he is important and
connotes fame. it will attract the audienceto the magazine as they want to know
what Brett Tinnion is saying about his new film.
More coverlines
I have created a house style on this magazinefront cover by using only three colours; red, black
and white. I have chosen these colours so it relatesto my film and therefore the audience will be
able to associate the magazine with Graduation.
The route of the eye format is used in this magazine. You see the mast head then you see
the image to the main article, then you see some coverlines, then you see the main article name and brief description and then finally another
coverline and then a barcode which is conventional for magazines to follow this
convention.
As you can see below my magazine uses a lot of conventions of similar media products. They both have developed a house style.They also have lots of coverlines to make the reader want to buy it because they have a lot of articles to read. All of the fonts
used are sans serif to make them easy to read and also are bold and have bright vibrant colours to make them stand out. Both magazines have the date, issue number and website which is conventional. The images are similar because they both show
who is in the main article as this is very conventional. On the main article there is a brief description to the article which is alsoconventional as it makes the reader want to read more.