How effective is the combination of your ancillary tasks and your main product?
This is a view of all my ancillary tasks together as you can see we have made sure that the colours and fonts we have used are all within the same effect and you can tell it comes from that certain album such as in the background of the front back and inside covers it is all black.
We also thought as we used the two pictures which made the combination of the front cover picture to be on the inside and back cover so easy to look at without it being top complicated with different pictures we thought that this worked well. With our front cover of the album having two sides this meant it was well related to the character in our music video as she is shown to have two sides with her partner e.g. one side is nice, happy and loving. Whereas the other side to her is more mysterious and dark and is heartbroken. overall We thought that the combination of the album cover and the song worked well together.
Another part of our front album cover which we took into consideration of combining the song and the album cover to together is by making our artist name 'Bryonyhope' relate to our music video which is named 'hopes and dreams' we thought that this would be good to combine as it makes the artist seem as though they have a deep connection with the song in which they have written. 
What we have also considered in combining our ancillary tasks is that we have used the costumes in which she is wearing in the album cover to represent what happens in our music video such as when Bryony is having the arguement with her partner it represents the dark side of the front album cover and the costume she is wearing represents that she cares about how she looks visually but inside she is feeling despair and sadness which isnt easily shown on the outside. However with the other side of the album cover we have combined the clothing in which she is wearing on the front album cover by it representing having fun and a good time by the colourful clothing, we have represented in the video for example when you see the artist singing she wearing quite bright and colourful clothing which shows us in the video that she is trying to tell us that she is stronger than her partner and she can move on and have fun.
For our disc cover background we used a silhouette image of the artist making the shape of a heart sign in her hand, we thought that this would work well as the music video is about heartbreak and relationships so we thought it would be a good idea as to seem as she is holding her heart in her hand and risking giving it away, we thought that this worked well into relating to the music video as well because in the video we have a shot of a heart which has been drawn in the sand and this could also be seen as being related to the silhouette image.For our magazine cover we used the same background colouring which is used in our album cover we thought that this would be a good idea as when people see the advertisement in a magazine they can relate it to the album or the music video by there being a dark background in the singing clips.
We have also used the same kind of camera shots in our album cover and our music video for example when bryony is argueing with her partner this is taken from a mid-shot angle so that she is the most noticable thing in the shot and so when you watch it she is the main focus of the screen. How this is related to my album cover is that i had taken the images from a mid-shot so that i could also create the same effect with this as is did for the music video as the artist is the most important part of any song. I think that the combination of these two together has worked quite well overall and i think that my audience would be able to make a relation between the two.
Conclusion
I think that the combination of our ancillary tasks and our main task has really helped us in creating a good professional looking product. The reasons for this is that if you look at any good selling album you will see that the whole album has a running theme throughout the album and it creates a atmosphere throughout the albuma and makes it to be portrayed through a certain genre like our you can clearly see that it isnt going to be a rock album but that it would be a quite mellow and acoustically themed album a clear example of another album which represents a running theme is Ben Howards album. As you can see below for his album he has had a running theme by having the same image for his album and his magzine advert such as he has kept it very plain and simple so that it isnt too busy and loud when you first see the album and the title is very clear so that is the main thing you notice like on our the title is very big and bright which stands out to you.
I think that by making a successful album and music video you need to have an idea of what combination of images and colours you want in your album to represent certain parts of your music video such as using images from the video or using images that use the same kind of colours in the the music video and by having these aspects it will make it more eye catching to anybody who buys an album, and i think that i have done this sucessfully with my album and ancillary tasks by having a running theme throughout.
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