Question 2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary

texts?

Our Final Ancillary Tasks

My main product that I produced was the two ancillary texts which included a poster for my product and a album cover for my product.In order to make these three things as effective as possible I tried to create a link between each product. My music video included a girl who was running away from her past, showing the confusion of her emotions and leaving everything behind. Therefore in my poster I wanted to re illustrate this by taking a medium close up of the our performer, however not looking happy but looking towards me from the corner of her eye whilst grabbing onto her hair showing fear from her eyes. This worked really well, so by taking these close-ups the CD Cover shows the performer in her distressed form which is the main theme of the music video. The song is called ‘The Gospel’, which relates to the performance in our product, in the content that it’s the life of a young girl living in distress trying to leave it behind. I did mainly create my CD Cover mock up to be more attractive for the audience.

My group each individually did their own mock up of the CD Cover and Poster. Which we then bought all our ideas together and created our final product.

We chose to use a black and white colour scheme as I linked with the lyrics of our chosen song which was quiet upsetting, but also the darkness suited our artist which worked really well with our theme as a whole. Each member of our group used dark colors in their mock up which is why we decided to keep as we all agreed to it. We purposely used a repeated image as a main factor as we thought it linked to the confusion of our artists. Also by researching many other artists it came to my attraction that by having the main artists photo more then once looks more appealing, this attraction came from Rihannas’ album which I instantly was attracted to as it uses dark effects and a repeated image or the main artist.

Our inlays are an additional overall branding to our product. We continued using the same colour scheme of the black and white and grey scale being blatant. We used a constant repeat of our main image in our inlays and we repeated text in our inlays so that we stayed with the theme of our CD Cover. Within our inlay we added the lyrics of our chosen song ‘ The Gospel’. Many real media products don’t do this, however we wanted that our audience could follow the song whilst listening to the song.