The document discusses the synergy between a main product (music video) and ancillary texts (CD cover, etc.). The genres of both are indie/pop based on questionnaire results. There is consistency in style across products with the same fonts, images, and dark colors associated with indie music. The finished products compare to real media as the video is edited like a professional music video and ancillary images relate to those in the video through matching settings and clothing. Difficulties arose from not knowing what the final video would be, requiring ancillary re-edits, and from different house styles chosen initially making it hard to find cohesive music.

1. Question 2 – How effective is the
combination of you main product and
ancillary texts?
By Santana Stewart

2. Genre
The genre of my ancillary texts is both pop and inie CD cover
indie/pop as usually indie bands end up in
Indie CD cover
the pop genre of music due to the
amount of fans and the change in music.
As my video is pop genre both the video
and my ancillary work together. As we
made questionnaires we came to find the
two popular genres were indie and pop so
this is why we chose to focus on these
two genres. The camera shot on my
ancillary texts i.e. the front cover of my cd Pop CD cover
cover is a high angle shot. And in the
video we produced there are many high
angle shots of the singer.
As you can see I have tried to combine
My CD cover

3. Style
There is a consistent house style in my
ancillary product as I used the same font
and images on the covers and cd cover
and size and style. Also the same images
are used in the video as on my front cover
of the album due to screen shots and the
model wearing the same dress. On my
ancillary I used darker colours associated
to indie music greys and blacks. Also this
associates with the video as it was a dark
day and the video is about being
heartbroken.

4. Finished Products
Our finished product compares to a real
media text as it is a music video. We have
edited the video to make it look like a real
music video. With the model mimicking
the words at the same time as he music is
being played and many different type of
shots of the model. It also compares to a
real media product to the editing
techniques used and the link of the
ancillary images relating to our video
images due to the model wearing the
same dress in both my ancillary product
and music video. Also the same setting
where the video was shot the main
photographs were taken used on our
ancillary products.

5. Editing
We edited the video on Adobe Premiere.
The editing technique we used the most
when making our video was cross dissolve
as we found that trying to get the video to
go from shot to shot smoothly was hard
as the shots were taken at different
angles.

6. Difficulties
The difficulties I experienced when
gaining synergy between the two
products was as we didn’t know what the
video would turn out like so we have to re
edit all of our ancillary products to make
them link together. Also we created our
ancillary tasks before we shot our video
so we had to base the video around the
type of house style we created on our
ancillary product and as we all chose
different colour schemes and house styles
it was hard trying to find music that
related to all our house styles and the
colour schemes we all used.