Evaluation Draft - Question 2

Question 2

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

For my main product, the song that I have used has the acoustic guitar featuring heavily and for the ancillary texts, I wanted to show the importance of it. 

Within my digipak, I used an image of a guitar twice, both at different angles and using a different effect upon it. For the image that would appear on the front of the digipak, I wanted to have a connection with the magazine, but the image features closer on the strings as I thought and found that this looked better during the editing process, but it still links back to my magazine, as well as the themes of the music video. I used the colour for the guitar and I also used the black and white images, linking back the music video and the effects within it, as well, to the emotion of the song and the build up of emotion that my audience referred to in my feedback.

Also, the font that I used within the digipak and the magazine is consistent and I did not deviate from that font. I used the same font and the layout on what would be the front of the digipak, on the title, making sure that both of my ancillary texts link up together nicely. 

Also, the icons for Facebook, Twitter and Vine, I also used on the magazine, in the same order, as well as the advertisement for the website at the bottom, in order to tie those together well.


The reason why I created texts with similarities?

I wanted to tie everything in together and for what I did in the music video to echo in ancillary texts. As the theorist Richard Dyer, explains that the image of a star is carefully planned out and constructed for the audience through media, such as within magazines and their music videos. Dyer also explains that a paradox must be maintained, where the star is present but simultaneously, not present. Such as, they are present within the subsidiary media, such as magazines and television, but obviously, not in real life. I included images of my artist within the digipak to show the link to the music video, and the link to Dyer's theory about paradoxes within the media industry.