Evaluation Question Two

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

The groups ancillary texts of the website and Digipack will make a very effective combination along with the music video due to having the similar costumes, lighting, tone and locations and these all together would create an overall image that the artist would promote the album.

Digipack

Our digipack uses most of the conventions that any existing CD's would use. The large image on the front of our album cover is the artist which is aimple yet effective and looks professional. This is the style that most artists use for their albums for example Lady Gaga, Ellie Goulding and Kelly Rowland to promote them as an artist and their songs.

This images just like our Cd cover and inserts have a very sexy and confident image and each of these have different themes for example Ellie gouldings album Lights you can see from the editing on her hair are made up as lights and the background uses metalic colours such as golds and silvers and this fits in with her theme of lights.

The insert for our album cover consists of a range of images of me with one side the innocent character and the other side the darker more confident character and this fits in with the main song "Not made for this" but again sets the theme and atmosphere for all the other songs on the album.

Richard Dyer has noted: “a star is an image constructed from a range of materials”. For pop music these materials include:

1=The songs and their lyrical themes and musical structures/ genres
2=The record covers- singles and albums display a large part of the image the artist wants to create and present to an audience
3=Music videos, which may draw upon the image presented in each of the other aspects.

The group has conformed to this theory by creating cohesion between the three products we have made which include website, digipack and the video itself to create a star image. An artist will release a particular song from their album as a lead song before their album is actually released. As an artist it takes time at this point to create their particular style and image. Our lead single from the album would be " Not made for this" as we have done this for our music video. This idea for the ablum cover and other ancillary texts is to create a atmopheric mood that fits in with all the songs and shows the difference between the two characters. The inserts have two pages the left half is the innocent images and the other half is the more confident sexier look. The innocent character represents the acoustic songs on the album which again is why we chose that character as the album cover.

Website

Our website has the influence from the real Anna Neale website and we have incorporated the colours and the tones that we have used for the digipack and used in the music video, which is mainly back and white. We have used pictures of me that we have taken from filming session to add into our website design which we took inspiration from the way Anna Neales website looked. All websites have tabs linking to another page on their website so we managed as a group to hyperlink our tabs on our website to another page which uses the conventions of other websites. On our website just like other artists we have out in our music video on the page to show it off and this is what is normally on a artists website. We also wanted to keep that acoustic feel