Evaluation Task 2

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


Trailer

The Soap Opera trailer has the typical conventions of the Soap opera genre, we made sure we had all of them incorporated and made it look realistic as we could. The concept of 'The Street' is Hayley's return to the street. The location itself is an urban street in London. The trailer has six dominant characters which shows a sense of community and realism. Hayley's return to the street is dramatic, which is a main convention of a soap opera which entices audiences to carry on watching.

The trailer at first focused primarily on the storyline of Hayleys parents; Benjamin and Michelle arguing about their daughter who is about to return after a long time. We decided that there was a lack of community dominant to the trailer therefore we had to make a few minor adjustments and add a few more characters (Dwayne and Cameron) who are watching the car enter the street which can assure audiences that there are a variety of storylines which will happen in upcoming episodes.

Website

We used iWeb to produce 'The Street' website. The purpose for making a website for our soap opera was to include more insight into our Soap Opera, for example we included character profiles, blog, behind the scenes etc.

Magazine Cover

Having looking at other TV listing magazines and their front covers, i had a template of how the media entice audiences into making them purchase/read their magazines. The symbolic and different significant headings helped me think of my own ideas for my magazine cover.
Having done a magazine cover in Year 11 media studies i was able to recognise and have the prior knowledge of magazines and what the necessities are. The main three characters in the trailer is the dominant image featured on the magazine, the main headline under the image says 'SHE'S BACK!' which is very big and bold aswell as having a yellow background to make the font stand out.
The magazine cover does have improvements that can be made for example the layout is not in proportion aswell as the mix of colours (navy blue background) which can look abit tacky, but other than that the magazine addresses to target audience and hopefully make them want to watch the soap opera.