Evaluation Question 2

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

Here are images from both our main product (screen shots) and ancillary texts.

When producing all of the final products I wanted to make sure that there was a certain link between them all, however I wanted to make sure that there was not a massive link with the music video and ancillary tasks. The reason for this being is that within the advert we are trying to actually advertise the album and within the album we are trying to get across the artist as an individual. However I do believe that the combination of our main product and ancillary task does work well for numerous reasons.

One of the main reasons why I think that the products work well together is the portray of the artist throughout. With the music video it is very emotional and up close to the artists, so with this the audience get a good feel for the artists and builds up a good bases which make audience feel sympathetic towards the artist. We have also done this within the digipak and advert because of the close up images which we have used to get across the artist well. So this had made the combination good because both of music video and ancillary tasks are portraying and getting the artist across within the same way. So by doing this it makes both the main product and ancillary tasks very effective in trying to achieve pretty much the main purpose which is trying to get across the artist.

Another piece which shows and emphasises a good combination between our main product and ancillary tasks is the use of instruments. I have used the instruments because I noticed that it was a generic features which was used with the genre that as a group we were trying to achieve, I noticed this when doing the background research into the music genre. So the combination of this being used across the main product and ancillary tasks has worked well because it shows that the genre is running through both of them, because we are keeping the same sort of theme.

Also, the last idea which has made both the main product and ancillary tasks effective is the colour coordination and fonts that have been used. When planning this we tried to used this as a sort of sub theme which is running through, so that the audience could see that there was some link, even if it was a very small factor. As you can see the font which we have used is the same, this got used because it is very eye catching which we are trying to achieve when produce both the main product and ancillary tasks. The colour scheme that we have used is predominately black and white and dull, however we have use occasion bring colours in contrast to help with catching peoples eyes. You can see this being used well within both main product and ancillary tasks.

So overall I do believe that the main product and ancillary tasks work well and are very effective when working as a combination. With everything working so well together and fitting well it does do well to try achieve a good sense of realism.