Ancillary Form Research

Clara Rodrigues

Title of the show.

Number of the series and number of episodes

Channel name and company name

Synopsis of the show to let the audience know what happens Picture of the

Sarah Jane’s helpers

Picture and name of main character in the show

DVD information

Informing the audience again how many episode and the number of the series so that they don’t have to turn the DVD around again

Sarah Jane Adventure

M.I.HIGH

Season number to inform the audience what series they are watching

Name of the series

Pictures of the main characters

Silhouette of the three main characters

Synopsis and information about the whole series

Name of the series again to remind the audience

DVD information

Picture of previous/nextseries

Lighting from the back-ground to make the main characters stand out

Conclusion When labelling both of the DVD covers I discovered that there are a lot of similarities to both of them. Such as having the number of the season on the front so that the target audience know what season they are watching and also what season they need to buy or watch next.On the Sarah Jane front cover there was only the main character which was Sarah Jane and then on the back cover there was picture of the three helpers.On the M.I.HIGH on the front cover there was a silhouette of all the main three characters and then on the back cover its shows one of them individually, all three of them in action and then it shows them in a line with the head spy, and this will give the audience a sense of excitement.Overall I think that both DVD covers are very similar not just because it’s the same category but they have a lot of things that are similar. This will help us when doing our ancillary task because we will know what is common for a magazine cover for children’s TV drama.

Sarah Jane Adventure

Name of the TV show

Main Character

Main character’s helpers

Subtitle

Competition

Masthead of the magazine

Information to attract the audience into reading the magazine

Main story

Sub stories

Name of the channel the programme is on

Picture to attract the audience

Main Picture

Main imagine

Competition time and games to attract the audience

Main characters of the show

Free gifts to attract the audience

Channel name

‘new comic strip’ this is also to attract the audience

Main Article

Bar code and date

‘Top secret’ will make the audience want to know what the secret is, so its an attraction

Picture of different articles featuring in the magazine

Conclusion When labelling the two magazine covers I discovered that there are a lot of similarities that they use to attract the audience to read more about it.The first similarity I noticed that they bot have prizes inside and this is used to make the audience buy the magazine if they want the prize, but it can also be a bonus if you really want to read the article.Another similarity would be the main imagine of the character is in the middle to make it more attractive and the main article story would be either next to the picture or in the middle of the picture.For our magazine we plan to use some of these features, such as having the main imagine in the middle with the main article on the side of the picture.Another thing we will be using that is really common when wanting to attract the target audience, would be having a prize inside of the magazine so its like a bonus when buying the magazine.