2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. I think that our music video and ancillary tasks definitely work well together as we have tried to produce our own artist image by using similar colours and conventions through out. We have tried to keep continuity with our video, magazine advertisement and digipack.
4. Our initial theme was going to be bright colours and things that link in with the 1980’s era, as our chosen song is ‘Acceptable in the 80’s’ by Calvin Harris. In our video we used bright flashing backgrounds to create an 80’s effect, so we have used the same colours in our digipack and magazine advertisement. I think that this works well because it helps with creating our artists image. We also looked at important 80’s icons for ideas such as looking at Madonna's vogue and kylies I should be so lucky videos and we incorporated something similar.
6. We thought about rubix cubes, Nintendo games, old records, converse and leg warmers, as we thought all of these could link in with this era. Luckily we could get hold of these objects and used them within our video, such as we have used the converse tapping along with the beat and we made it look as if the rubix cube was moving a long with the song, we also did this with a Nintendo controller and tried to make it look as if we were pressing the buttons along with the song.
7. We also incorporated these images into our digipack and advertisement to keep the continuity. We have also included a pop art inspired image of lips in the corners of our ancillary tasks which I think gives of an 80’s vibe as it uses a bright colour for the lips on a black background. We have used the same images through out our over all media product because it helps the audience make a clear link between them and recognize the artist.
8. We have also used the same font in both the magazine advertisement and digipack because we felt that it had quite an 80’s era electro look to it as it was quite bold and square and had a kind of pixilated effect on it. We made the font white and put it on a black background to make it stand out to the audience and it it’s the first thing that the eye is drawn to, the black background of the writing also stands out from the brightly coloured main background, this will help the audience recognize the artist and also helps with creating the artists image.
9. Overall we think that the creativity and design of our main media product and ancillary texts have come together to form a good artist image and a good overall media product that have a clear link between them, we also think that our over all product would be attractive to our main target audience and stand out from other media products.
