Evaluation 2

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

House Colours

When we decided on the location for our music video, and had the appropriate lighting we took some photographs before filming. These photographs we used when doing our ancillary tasks. The house colours that we achieved were by using our images, there was a tool on Serif (the programme we used on the computers creating the ancillary tasks) that allowed you to take a colour from the picture by simply selecting it and then you could use that colour as a font or a text box and that is what i did for my magazine article.

Typography

I decided to use a variety of fonts when doing my ancillary tasks. In the magazine article i used about 3 or 4 different fonts which all varied in size depending on the content of the text. For the rating's by popular music companies in, i used a style of font that used symbols which is how i did the star's. In the CD cover, again, a variety of fonts were used throughout the cover, but on the back sheet of the cover, my partner and i decided that when listing the songs, each song would be a different size to the next, or be italic or bold so that all songs looked different and caught the eye of a reader.

Image Motif

Image motifs were not really used through our ancillary tasks unfortunately, if done again, i would research into an image motif more and create one for my artist.

Genre characteristics

When listening to our artist, my partner and i pictured them playing in a natural type of place, but one that went well with there sound. It was a hard task to do, but we both decided on using a field or a hay barn (originally starting off in a field and due to lighting problems changed to a hay barn). When we got to the hay barn and the artists started play, i felt that it all just clicked and went very well together.

Use of Images

All of our ancillary tasks involved pictures that my partner and i took when filming. Due to the great lighting our pictures came out great, so we were lucky enough to use them in our CD cover and magazine article. We didnt edit our pictures at all because we were happy with the way they were taken, also we wanted to stick with the natural theme of our music genre. The pictures were of course scaled down to fit certains area's and with the front cover of the CD cover it was cut up.

Industry Information

Industry Information was easy enough to come by, we got majority of it off google, making sure that non of it breached copy right laws.

Layout Design

The layout designs were all very similar throughout the ancillary tasks, but all different enough to be enjoyed from different aspects. This is how we created our Brand Identity.

Use of Still Shots

Our still shots were used alot, all of them are posted up on my blog. We used them for all ancillary tasks, because we decided early on in the project that it would be the best way of showing our artist, by using him as the image motif.