This document reviews examples of previous ancillary work created by three artists - Nathan Miller, Messie M, and Poppy Power. For each artist's digipak and advert, it identifies strengths such as consistent design, use of conventions, clear images and fonts, and weaknesses like inappropriate placement of images or missing logos. The reviews provide an overview of the design quality and adherence to genre standards of the various ancillary materials.

1. Examples of previous Ancillary work
Nathan Miller
DIGIPAK:
Strengths:
-relevant to the genre
-great design – mesh of colours
-follows conventions
-appropriate font (futuristic and robotic)
-interesting placement of picture on the inside
- good close up of artist
Weaknesses:
- a lot of dead space on the inside panel where the photo is
ADVERT:
Strengths:
-consistent house style
-minimal colours used (green and white)
- follows conventions

2. Weaknesses:
- seems to be randomly arranged
Messie M
DIGIPAK:
Strengths:
-follows conventions (barcode, label etc)
-consisent font
-clear images
-appropriate effects
Weaknesses:
- Back picture seems a bit inappropriate
- Not great placement of the picture on the CD (hole should have been on the ear to
make it appear like headphones)
ADVERT:
Strengths:
-consistent colour scheme (house style)
- concise and to the point

3. - clear link to the digipak
- follows conventions
Weaknesses:
-the company logos are missing (HMV, iTunes, amazon) – just written in blue rather
then the actual image
Poppy Power
DIGIPAK:
Strengths:
- consistent link between colours in the video and in the digipak
- consistency (all aspects)

4. - clear, legible font
- follow conventions: barcode, labels, copyright information
- good placement of images
- appropriate costume
- simple but effective
Weaknesses:
Hardly any!
ADVERT:
Strengths:
- consistency between ancillaries
- follows conventions
- interesting placement of pictures and text.
Weaknesses:
- phrasing is a bit odd “available digitally”