My main product was two ancillary texts: a poster and album cover for a music video. To make the products effective, I linked their designs. The music video featured a girl running from her past emotions. The poster showed her looking distressed from the corner of her eye while grabbing her hair, reinforcing this theme. The album cover then showed her distressed form, continuing the theme. We used a black and white color scheme matching the upsetting lyrics. Repeating the artist's image multiple times and in dark tones made the designs appealing and linked to the theme of confusion. The inlay continued this color scheme and repetition to stay consistent with the overall branding.

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

2. Our Final Ancillary Tasks

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.