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1. Question 2, How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
In my Ancillary texts I have explored the same genres, the ancillary's I did was the music magazine
advertisement, digi-pack and album front cover. Between these three I would defiantly say there is
synergy and a link used with them all. I have used the same picture on the front of my Digi-pack,
advertisement and album. The reason I have done this is so my audience can establish that all three
pieces are part of the same album, this was also done as it also links well and looks good, I have also
used the same edit on all of the images. I used a black and white effect on all the images; this is
because it allows my audience to gain a understanding of the music genre. The reason I have also
used this is because when looking at professional digi-packs and advertisements, of this genre I
found the majority of the images are all black and white. Therefore if I used it I thought it would help
my audience establish the genre. I have also used this effect within my video, this then gives a link to
all my ancillary and also my final product.
I would also say that there is a clear link and combination between my photos used and my music
video, although I have not used an image from the music video it creates a link between the final
product and the ancillary’s, this is because I have used an image with a similar setting and location to
my video, as it looks bleak and sad which is the affect I wanted on my music video therefore it
creates a synergy and combination between them. Also the colours used are low key and black and
white which is used to help understand the genre which is stated above but also, to creat this down
sad look to the video and my ancillary’s, however I didn’t use all black and white in my video, to
suggest there is some happiness and good to my narrative, and if you look closely on my
advertisement and album cover you will see that, under the tunnel in the picture it is colour
suggesting ‘there is light at the end of the tunnel’ which once again creates a link between my
ancillary’s and my final product. I have not really used any iconography to the indie genre besides
the black and white affect, I have not used guitars and over props, this may cause confusion to my
audience as they may not be able to establish the genre across my ancillary’s. Other images used on
my digi-pack also help establish a link between my final product and ancillary’s because I have used
characters and locations from my final peace, into my digi-pack resulting in a link between them
again.
The finished product, compares to a real product in a similar way, this is because I did research into
looking at album covers, advertisements, digi-packs and also music videos, therefore I took ideas
from professional music videos etc, and found that they tend to use black and white images,
therefore I used black and white images to get my products to look like a real professional product, I
also found that across there album digi-pack and advertisements they use the same main image,
(normally there album cover) to create a link, and to also get the audience to establish that all three
product and there music videos all belong to the same artist. Therefore I also tried to replicate this
idea to make my products once again look like a real product. However looking into certain real
products they tend to have the lead singer or the band etc. on their album cover, however I have not
this therefore could cause people to think that it is not a real professional product.
There were difficulties in which I faced in trying to gain this combinations/synergy. The struggles I
faced was trying to get the same style and effect on the main image on to the subsidiary images on
the digi-pack, because all though I used a black and white affect the contrast was high and give it a
high key look. Therefore when I tried to apply the same effect on the images it came through darker

2. than the main image and this broke the synergy in which I was trying to produce. Also the style and
place of the text, due the size of the images changing on the advertisement, digi-pack and album
cover I was struggling to get the text to look affect, and to make it look like it had a link between the
three ancillary’s and the final product, as I had to change the style size and place a lot and this made
each one look rather different. But apart from these barriers which I tried my best to overcome I
didn’t not suffer with any other difficulties in creating a synergy between my three ancillary prdoucts
and my final product.