Q2 - How Effective Is The Combination Of Your Main Product And Ancillary Texts?

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The effectiveness of our main task and our ancillary task is powerful as both products create a strong compilation. Just from one glance the audience will be able to tell who the band is and what genre of music it is. This is obvious due to the fact that both have a similar colour scheme and all band members are in both the music video and poster. Many smaller bands do this or bands who are fairly new on the music scene. This is usually because not a lot of people would have heard of them or seen them so by showing them the band and their name, in the future the audience will recognise them. Bands such as Black Stone Cherry, Red Hot Chili Peppers and even more mainstream chart artists such as Akon and Usher have done this. We decided to do this because it kept to the conventions of our chosen genre of music and it is a strong stereotypical point for a new band which is the path in which we have decided to go down.

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Both of my ancillary texts compliment each other because of many stereotypical conventions that I have implemented. For example; the use of the dark colours such as black and grey represents the genre of the band and the album. This makes it easy for our target audience to see what genre the album is without needing to listen to it. Another concept I have used is the album name on both the album and the poster so that people will understand what the poster is advertising. This will also help the audience to recognise the album if they see in store.