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

Although the poster I created was not directly related to my main product, (not a still image from the product) it still relates to the plot device of the marbles. The photograph I created during the brainstorming session following my idea for the film. From the poster, an audience can guess that the film is quite 'eerie' and a drama or a horror. It is not too revealing which essentially completes it's task by provoking the audience to wonder and ask about the film and perhaps research it. The simple colour scheme with the black background and warped text implies it is surreal and perhaps involves death. The use of the marble counters its intended original invention of being a fun 'almost-sport' to a dark and twisted one, not what the audience would normally apply the object to. The poster gained these critical comments: 

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• 'Colour of marble, good choice! Stands out!'
• 'Font! :)'
• 'The light around the marble makes it obvious that it's a significant part of the film.'
• 'Light and shadow adds a good atmosphere.
• 'Eerie!'
• 'Like looking through a marble. (font)'
• 'Black, like the humour'.
• 'Like.'

My film itself, I believe fits in well with the poster and would rightly suit it. The film together with the two ancillary tasks combine to create the vision i had when starting this product. 

The review I created, incorporates the same colour scheme as the poster, mixing dark backgrounds with light overlays. this continuity helps to associate these pieces together, hoping to connect the two and build up a database of images and signs in the audience mind. The photograph uses a still from production, capturing the actor in deadpan interest. The review looks as if the magazine might of made a spread of the film and included the poster free, making the section in itself a 'mini-mag'. The 'Hamlet' of the magazine world. In all, the two pieces work well together to create an 'eerie' sense that the audience will have to experience to find out just what it is. The poster could be replicated and sized to DVD cases, and merchandising such as postcards to spread popularity.