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

I choose TV choice to create a magazine front cover for. This is because it is a magazine which targets our young target audience as well as having a long relationship with advertising soap operas on the front of there magazine.

I choose to do a telephone box advert because it is a unique style of advertisement which other soap operas don’t use, as a result will stick out.

During our research we found out that BBC 3 describes there target audience as “BBC Three aims to connect with 16 to 34 year olds, so tone is really important on the channel. Humour is an Entertainment essential. But younger audiences also want opportunities to connect with others: they are looking for things worth talking about. 16 to 34s are inquisitive and ambitious, independent and adventurous and will be attracted to shows on BBC Three that feel like they're absolutely relevant to them and their lives.” (BBC3 website)

This is what we all as a group based our posters and magazine covers on to attract this audience which is described.

This is important as different magazines and posters are more effective for a age group and target audience then other magazines and posters. So we had to ensure that the product we were designing would be effective.

BBC 3 logo in the bottom right

of the poster, with it running of the poster

Caption on top of the poster

Characters in medium

long shot/long

shot

Website and twitter account,

encouraging social networking in the bottom left

hand side.

When I looked at the BBC3 poster for the being human series I saw the instantly the layout of the posters and knew that I had to follow that structure for it to be effective.

I also liked the idea of having more then one character in the poster but thought I would have two characters back to back rather then facing the same way. This was because I wanted our poster to look more masculine and more of a action/thriller genre.

Seasonal touch

Competition advertisement

Other show advertisement on bottom of page

Characters in close up

Bold title with shadow

effect

Price shown twice

Same actors from

film

Name of our

program

Channel

Logo shown on both

products.

Channel which the program will be

on. Both

made by BBC3

Internet encouragement

Same characters from trailer

on magazine

cover

Logo not on cover as it is a different company that makes the magazine cover

Channel is not

allowed on

magazine cover either

In conclusion my print work designs work well in my opinion because it displays our unique genre of drama/soap opera but also displaying the thriller/action/crime genre.

They link with my video by displaying the same information.

If I was to do this again I would take more care in the set up of my images and take photos from as many angles as I could incase I change my plan during the editing stage and have no time to go back.