Evaluation: 2.How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

I think my magazine cover looks good because it uses the conventions of a soap magazine and it has bright colours, eye-catching font and good quality images which I think all work really well together to make the magazine cover look intressting and bring the viewer to purchase it.

I think the website works well with the magazine cover because this too is packed with information about our soap and has been created with fresh bright colours to give it a modern look. I think this is a detail which makes it appealing to our audience, because our trailer is also very modern and specifically aimed at a young audience, so our audience are visiting our website to be furthur intertained by the soap that they enjoy watching. Our website has a number of pages, all with intressting never-before-seen photos of us and the characters we are playing and also other things which our audience can read and be interested in like the interviews we wrote up, the e-cards we created and the games that we made. Ensuring that our website gets updated as our soap progresses on television, our audience should not ever have to be bored. Also, my magazine is a good example of other media products where our audience can read about our soap and find out things that they did not know before.

The font we chose for our website also helped to give the site a modern look, as the font is different and looks stylish. We used a slim font for the name of the soap on the main page and put a silhouette of central London behind it to show the location of our soap.Within our webpage, we used bright and bold colours which gives it an overall modern and young look.

I think, if we were to do our website again, we would make it more unique and try to move away from the layout restrictions. By this, I mean that we could use more professional website creating software so that we could create the layout plan ourselves and then, this would be more suited to our trailer which is quite youthful and therefore jumping from story to story in a fun and engaging way. But I think for what we wanted to create and considering the scale of the project, our website is good enough and also looks quite professional as we took the time to make sure everything was neat and the images worked in harmony with the text and information.

I am happy with the way my magazine cover has turned out because it looks like a real product and that it could be successful within the industry.

Our trailer has the overall effect of a soap trailer, and I am happy with the way it has turned out.

As a whole product, the three texts link together really well because our webpage reflects the characters' personalities and storylines in a way that lets our audience look on our website for more information about our soap after watching our trailer, if they should wish it. My magazine cover helps to promote and advertise my soap, making it known as a soap opera amongst other existing soap magazines which means that people intressted in buying soap magazines will see our new soap on the cover of my magazine and be interested in it, and therefore, may purchase it to find out more about our programme. Our trailer engages the audience in realistic storylines and issues that could happen to anyone, with their life styles, fashions and relationships being interesting and stimulating to our audience which makes our audiences want to watch more and keep watching.