Evaluation question 2 – How effective is the combination of your main project and ancillary texts?

We as a group purposefully shot what appears to be a random shots and mixed them all up in our trailer to make it hard for the audience to figure out the narrative. We wanted to hint at the fact that there was something wrong and mysterious going on to do with these three women, without giving to much information away. By not revealing the majority of the information and characteristics of our characters, it forces our audience to concentrate more when watching the trailer, whilst try to figure out what and why these women have to do with the storyline and what is going on within the story. From watching our trailer an audience can gather that it is the women who are the main character, are the predators in the film and that men are their helpless and oblivious victims.
From the poster an audience can gather that the female characters are the dangerous and murderous character in the film, however they still are unable to fully see and identify the majority of the characteristics from the image, due to the choice of pose as it slightly hides Holly’s face yet still shows her in a powerful and dominant pose. An audience can gather the same information about the plot and characters from the magazine front cover as they can from the film poster; however you can see a bit more of the characters facial characteristic. The quotation “an example of why messing with the wrong women is a BIG mistake” confirms and audience’s ideas and theories about the female characters as being murderous and dangerous. The fact that you can’t gather much more information from the film poster or magazine front cover is a good thing because it will force an audience to either go and watch the film or to by the magazine to find out more about the film and find out the true storyline.