The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a music artist's main product with ancillary texts like a magazine ad and CD cover. The student created a magazine ad and CD cover for their music artist Leyton Benta by researching styles used by artists like Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, and Michael Jackson. They challenged conventions by using vibrant colors and lighting to make Leyton stand out. Testing found 89% of people found the magazine ad and CD covers appealing due to their vibrant colors. There is synergy between the music video, CD, and magazine ad as they all feature Leyton dressed the same to promote the products together. In the end, the group selected the student's CD cover and magazine ad as their favorites

1. How effective is the
combination of your main
product and ancillary
texts?

2.  We was asked to create an magazine advert and a cd cover for our ancillary texts. For this
we had to research different types of cd covers and magazine adverts in the same genre as
our music artist/ video. I had researched Chris Brown ,Justin bieber and Michael Jackson.
After analysing different
I challenged the codes and conventions of
cd covers by Justin
these media products as I added a lot of colour
bieber. I was able to see
and lighting as I wanted Leyton to stand out,
the codes and
so through the use of my editing techniques I
conventions of these
made Leyton the main image with a central
artists and was able to
background which was appealed to the
compare them to my
audience. Whereas the cover of the album
artist, Leyton Benta.
Baby by Justin Bieber was quite simple.

3. Differences: whilst
Similarities:
the photograph on
Both posters got a
the other advert is
strong image of
in grayscale, I had
the artist so that
done mine in colour
audience can
to make my poster
easily recognise
stand out and make
who it is about.
it more appealing.
Differences:
Similarities: The album title and the new
Both got the song release title are
‘HMV’ logo in appealing on my poster
the corner with whereas on the other poster
the slogan ‘get it is written in simple form
closer’ so that and it is not instantly
the audience recognised by the audience.
can instantly
see who
promotes the
artists. Overall I challenged the codes and conventions of a typical advert,
and this was shown through my editing technique.

4.  There is a huge synergy between all our products as all Our target audience was from the age range of
our products interlink with each other. An example of 12-15 . As we had a few negative feedback about
synergy can be Disney as they have their very own the video we had expected positive feedback
movies, dvds and merchandises such as toys , mugs , about the dig pack , and the outcome came as we
clothes etc. This helps it promote all their products as expected. From the survey that I had done 89% of
people would come across one of them and eventually the people found the magazine advert and cd
get to know about the other. Our music video shows the covers appealing and interesting , mostly because
struggles Leyton had to go through such as family of the vibrant colours used which would stand out
problems and de-motivating hood rats who don’t in public.
appreciate what he does. We used the skate park to
represent where he grew up. The way we used synergy
to link all our products (cd, magazine and video) is by
having Leyton in each of the product with the same
clothing. We used the pictures from the photo-shoot
from the narrative shooting for our CD covers and
magazine advert that we took individually. We have
challenged the codes and conventions of a typical Pop
artist by dressing Leyton up smartly even though the
location was Urban. This was to also show that not all
people from the Urban city dresses stereotypically.

5.  For our final choice , as a group we had
decided that they prefer my cd cover and
magazine the most out of the 4 made by
all of us.