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

My Ancillary texts stood the same amount of research as my main film did, and the same level of detail. My Film Noir poster was researched, as I looked at dozens of Film Noir posters from the time to try and get an idea of how to create a true poster. I noticed common themes among them, including slanted text, characters bigger than other characters and actors last names being in capitals. Also, due to the lack of technology, almost all of them where hand drawn.

Due to me being no artist, I used photos I captured of all the main characters and arranged them in photoshop to create the poster seen below. I created a hand drawn effect using a effect on photoshop which makes photos look like oil paintings. I found it difficult to know where to space the names, as the shape where the faces where in took up most available space, which was frustrating as I am still unhappy with there location.

To fully combine my poster with my film noir, I photoshopped it into a photo so it looked like it was hanging

outside a cinema right next to posters for other big blockbusters such as Clash of the Titans and Book Of Eli.

My review helps add to the believabilty of this film actually being released into the box office, with me thinking like a critic after reading many reviews, analyzing their layout and highlighting what makes a bad film. I found it easier to criticize my film as I can find out things I did wrong and wanted to do again than completely praise it for being a masterpiece which it is not. This is why I gave it 3 stars out of 5. I made my critic ignore the run time, as if you paid full price cinema ticket for a 6 minute film, you would believe its the worst film ever so I had to suspend reality slightly. Click here to see the review.