2. How effective is the combination of your
main products and ancillary texts?
3. In this question I am going to answer the
following:
• Does it fulfil its purpose?
• Would it be appropriate for your target
audience?
• How do they combine with each other?
• What would I change?
6. Does it fulfil its purpose?
Both my digipack and magazine advertisement include many typical
conventions of existing digipacks and magazine advertisement. In advance to
making both of my ancillary tasks I researched existing magazine
advertisements and digipacks of the same genre of music and the in the same
magazine I chose. From doing so I noticed that most CD covers and magazine
adverts by this genre of music have the artist on the front. In my digipack
cover I used all the general information on other CD covers by my artist such
as the artist name, album name, track list and production company info. I really
think this fulfils its main Purpose. As for my magazine advertisement I think I
have made it so it fulfils its purpose. I think this because I included all the
correct information about the artist and the album. The goal of a magazine
advertisement is to promote an album and help it sell, I definitely think that I
have done this.
7. Would it be appropriate for you
target audience?
Personally I think that both my magazine
advertisement and my CD digipack are appropriate
for my target audience. I aimed my music video at a young
generation of 20 and below. All of the songs on the album
are very summery so I portrayed this in both of the ancillary
tasks by putting the main character who stands in as the
singer „Colbie Caillat‟ in a white dress and by having
flowers, the sun and summery colours. I think my album
cover and magazine advertisement portray the artist very
well. I think my album would attract mostly females
because it‟s a female artist and most of her songs are
about being in love.
8. How do they combine with each
other?
I think that my magazine advertisement and
my digipack combine well with each other.
This is because they were both shot with the
same outfits, hair and makeup and also
because I kept the same “summery” feel in
both of them.
9. What would I change?
I am very happy with the final outcome of both of my
ancillary tasks. I think I portrayed the artist very well in both
of them. I really enjoyed creating both my magazine
advertisement and my digipack because it was fun to
explore Photoshop and it was fun to take the pictures. I
think they both look very professional and realistic. The
only thing that I would change about my ancillary task is
that I would take a wider variety of pictures so that I had
more to choose from.