Monday, 11 April 2016

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

In this answer I am going to be explaining, comparing and saying why I think my main product and the other pieces I have created work well together and why I think this. The three pieces I am going to be talking about are my main music video, my poster and my digipak.

The first thing I am going to be talking about is how each of them link. I think I have done this quite clearly through my poster and digipak as I have used similar fonts in the writing and the imagery used is also quite similar. It is still quite obvious that these then link to my video as they are all using the same sort of imagery, background and colours but due to there being no text in the video, it cannot be put across this way which is why I feel that it is obvious and I am happy with the imagery I used.

Throughout all of my products I made sure to use myself as a 'star' and due to this I made sure to include myself into all of the products to help keep a star image look and to promote myself throughout all of them, This also helped to create a theme through my works and show that they are all a collective.

Due to the song artist I used myself as a representation of Watsky the real artist for this song. I made sure to include his name across all of the works, even in the title of the video although not explicitly in the video. I also used a theme of Cardboard castles in visual and written text across as it is the name of the song and is spoken about in the lyrics of the song.

As touched upon in a few of my other points I have made sure to use a similar background and to do this I have used a lot of areas but from different angles, but also I have used different areas but in the same town so it still has a similar look to it. I believe that this helps link all of my products together and helps them show that it is all the same artist but also shows variety and that I am not using the same image over and over again.

I think that using all of these similarities and that are put across through all of my products, they will all help sell each other but I think that the most important ones are that the music video will help sell the CD and the CD will then help sell the album if people see the poster as they would have bought and heard the song from the CD and then due to there being a lot of similarities between the digipak and the poster, it will help sell more concert tickets from the poster.

In conclusion I think that everything has a similarity to another and I have done this for a clear reason as it will help everything sell everything else and it helps the fans know that they are all related products and to get them to buy them all.