How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
When making my poster for Teaching Teens I focused on one character just leaving against a brick wall. I chose to use the main character for this episode so it would not give to much away which would encourage people to watch it at the displayed time of 8.30. I focused the colour on Bradley and made the rest dull shades of white and gray as well as incorrporating a photoshop effect of a lined piece of paper to add to the school theme to the right and at the bottom of the poster to inform the viewers it is an educaiton based documentary. I also included the Channel 4 symbol so the viewers know which channel is it shown on as well as a chance to advertise the channel in general which we also do at the start of our documentary using a short Channel 4 advert with a voice over to introduce the show. On my T.V. listings magazine double page spread, I again made Bradley my main focus, this time he is sitting on a stage with a football looking like a typical, troubled teenage student. The image takes up most of the whole left side page to further the viewers curiousity with out giving to much away. On the right page is the writen part of the artical giving a small glimps of what the documentary is about and what you can expect, including quotes from the head teacher who is pictured the the left of the writen part of the artical. Under the writen artical, a smaller picture of Bradley, similar to the one on the poster is used to create a common image in the viewers head of the documentary. Both poster and double page spread help promote and inform the viewers of the main product 'Teaching Teens' in order for it to get more viewers. Overal the combination of the main product and ancillary texts is very effective in getting more viewers.
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