How effective is the combination of your main

product and ancillary texts?

A2 Media Studies.

Emily Batts

Front and Back Cover.

-Front Cover. - Back Cover.

Left Inside Panel and CD.

-Left Inside Panel.

- CD.

- My digipack is very similar to both my magazine advert, and my music

magazine.

Magazine Advert.

- Here is my magazine advert. I believe that my advert is eye

catching, despite it being mainly black and white. With the use of the red i believe that it makes it stand out more, and compliment

one another well. - I have used forms and

conventions of real media products such as the ratings and images of sites where the product

is available, in my opinion this

makes my magazine advert more professional and effective.

Screen Shots From Music Video.

Comparing Products

-The images around my front cover are products which i used in order to get ideas for my front cover.

- The artists are ones which are most like to my chosen one, and fit within my genre, so it made sense to get inspiration from these existing products.

- Although my cover looks different from these real media products, i feel that i have used some concepts from these products, and overall mine is an effective product,

fitting in with my chosen genre.

Shown here are my left inside

panel and my back cover. As you can see I have used a handprint in order

to create a recurring theme within my work.

The handprint also shows the

colouring red, which is one colour which I have used constantly within

my work.

Here you can see my front cover and my

magazine advert. These products work well together

because I have used the same

font within them, showing

a recurring theme so that you can see

that these who products relate

to one another.

Here shows parts of my digipack, i feel that parts of my digipack were very similar, but others weren’t as much. In order to link them to one another, and make them effective i decided to incorporate small things, such as the hand print, into the product in order to relate them to one another.

From these images you can see that the CD and front cover are very similar, whereas my inside panel appears to be very different, in order to link these to one another i used the same white font, and i also made the background for the CD very similar to this panel, using the hand print.

I feel that overall i have made my combination of products effective through making them slightly different to one another, but by using small things i was able to link them simply to one another. This makes my product individual, creative, and effective.

- Here are some images from the products which i made. The top one is a clip from my music video, the bottom left is my magazine

advert, and the bottom right, is my back cover. These images show that i have used the same

outfit throughout my work, this creates a recurring theme throughout my products and also makes it effective as they are all similar.

- I am showing here how i have used the same text within my products in order to make them

similar, and also effective. - For my main titles, such as the name of the song

and the artist i have used the same font, but within the two shown different

colours.- Where i have written the smaller writing, such as

the ratings and the message from the artist, i have used a different font to the main ones, but the same for this sort of text.

- The final text which i have used is for the

information, such as the websites and the song track lists. This text is

simple, but bold.

- Overall, although these different fonts are

completely different to one another, i feel that they

work well with one another, separating what

information is being told with what font, working

well with one another, and making my finished

products effective. Although i would say that my products are all effective with one another, it could be

argued that they aren’t effective. The reason for this being that i have used black, white and red within my ancillary tasks, whereas

within my music video this colouring has not been used and i haven’t used anything such

as the handprint, this may mean that the audience may not associate the products within one another, creating a negative

issue.