Evaluation Question 2

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

When completing my ancillary task's, I had to create a a4 advert for a magazine, a front cover and back cover for a CD and an inlay card. Before creating all of these I had looked at other references such as albums that are related to pop or quirky, I had looked in music magazines to look for adverts and to see what the main codes and conventions are for the poster. I had looked at The Saturday's. The album shows the group against a plain background and wearing bright colours to attract their target audience using colours. The cover show the name of the group/ artist and the album name with a main image of them. When looking at the cover the artist's name is in a bright colour which is lighted up and the name of the album is written on the newspaper which can be clearly read. The main image of the girl's also show them wearing bright shoes that match the colour of their seats and also link in with the bright colours associated with pop.

The back cover is a plain background with the typography linked with the front cover and the back cover is simple. On the bottom we can also see the institutional information at the bottom along with the bar code. We can also see the logo for the record company and the websites. By looking at the codes and conventions we were able to adhere to them as well as making them our own by changing where we place them for example our bar code is at the top of our back cover. When looking at our ancillary tasks we have kept our brand identity as we used the typography and font colour consistent as well as the images. For our ancillary tasks we had used bright colours to attract our target audience and catch people's eyes. We had subverted using pastel colours like traditional images. By subverting the codes and conventions we have made the ancillary tasks original. We have have also made it have visually appealing aesthetics so that people would take a look at it and buy it. When looking at the back cover, we have kept the typography and colour consistent. We have also stuck to conventions by keeping a main image of the artist on the back cover. We have also stuck to conventions by keeping the institutional information and having a bar code. We have also taken into account what sides the track lists and what sides to put it on we have gone for the right hand side without numbers. We have also added the artists' name to make it stand out and making it bold so it can stand out. We have also kept the colour consistent once again by using hot pink, light blue and black. We have also made sure that by conforming to conventions of a back cover we needed to make it our own and original and we felt that e have done this. By looking at The Saturday's album we see they have kept their back cover simplistic and we have done this as well. They had linked their typography on the front cover and the back like ours and just kept the basics of a back cover such as the institutional information, including websites and logo's along with the bar code. Overall I have felt that our ancillary text's are creative and original.