Our ancillary texts went through a few drafts of ideas however I now feel very comfortable in saying that the combination of our main product and ancillary texts is extremely effective. Our TV listings was originally to be promoted by a celebrity Jeremy Kyle as he is an ex-gambler who struggled with addiction. We first thought this would help promote the makeover idea as his chatshow is of a similair genre in the way that it helps people with their personal problems. We then changed our mind though as we thought the series would be more personable and more popular if it focused more on the individual charachters who struggle with their addiction. However we still used him as the interviewer for a cameo appearance. As far as design for our ancillary product goes we originally were going to use every letter in the 'What's Your Addiction?' title to represent a different addiction but we thought it would be make the documentary less series so we only changed the 'o' into a roulette wheel to represent the first episode of our series, gambling.
We thought if we produced a more traditional advert it would be more successful as we learnt from the TV documentary Seven days which tries to incorporate new media unsuccessfully. We used the Radio Times despite the fact that TV listings magazines are becoming increasingly less popular. We thought that this would be the most successful as it is the most prestigous listings magazines and that we make our series appear to be a new phenomenom, much like Snog Marry Avoid.
Our Second ancillary text was a 2 page newspaper spread which focused more on the individual episodes. The idea of our newspaper spread is that it would change each week, using a different image depending on which addiction we were focusing on that week. Therefore our spread focuses on a roulette wheel as our main product and first episode is on Gambling. We chose to put this spread in The Guardian as we believed that we be the most likely newspaper to dedicate such a spread to a documentary. As far as design,in our second ancillary product, we took a picture of a roulette wheel to illustrate the first episode of our series gambling. We also have the ball placed on the number 10 to represent what time the documentary was on.
We believed that Channel 4 would also be imperative to use as it has so many successful documentaries and makeover shows and we thought it would be the ideal launch pad for our new series 'What's Your Addiction?'. We believe this ancillary product is extremely effective as it clearly promotes the exact format and theme of the show, clearly illustrating to the viewers what they are going to see. This can fluctuate from week to week as the series continues, as different people have different interests and connections to the variety of addicitons.
