Thursday, 28 February 2013

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

Cross-media advertising is one of the most important ways of marketing, and especially when marketing films. Along with the trailer, we made ancillary products (poster and magazine) to further promote the film and to experiment in different forms of media. http://www.getmemedia.com/DB/market-insight/cross-media-advertising.html

Links between advertising products are important for reminding people of the film's existence, and constantly reinforces and triggers the idea of wanting to see the film into the audience's mind.





Our audience feedback informs us that there are clear links between the magazine and poster. Because magazines are made separately from film marketers themselves, they don't tend to follow as many conventional patterns to promote films. They do sometimes mimic ideas to present the film in the same way that those who made the film would, taking on board similar colour schemes and fonts so that there are many similar connotations being fed to the audience.