Evaluation Questions!

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

When designing and making our ancillary tasks we tried to think a lot about the mes en scene in which we had used in our video, we thought about different types of shot, such as long shots, close ups, this was because we wanted the ancillarys to be as effective as possible.
We also decided to use a picture for an album cover where the actor is holding a cigarette, we feel this is effective when linking it to the video because it gives the whole thing a much more urban feel.
We feel that certain things could be changed with our ancillary tasks such as the text maybe, as we havent used a text that really links in with the video, we feel that maybe if we used a better text it may have made the whole thing that little bit more effective.
We used a black and white theme to make the cover feel more urban, like the band in itself, we feel colour could have been added but we didn’t know if this suited the band.
We also made advert covers and decided to make them simple, but we feel they are effective, I think a little more planning could have gone into the advert, but the simplicity that we have used gives it an appropriate feel, most of all the ancillary tasks suited the bands video that we made and we feel that this is a very effective quality as when an audience reads the ancillarys then sees the video they have a good chance of picking this up.