1. Question 2
{ How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

2.  With my main product in comparison to other media texts there
are several similarities. One of which is noticeably the colour
scheme. I have kept the colours very simple throughout the
music video and with my ancillary texts. With Palace’s actual
recent EP we can see they have used the white font which I have
similarly used in my digipak for Palace, the letter spacing has
also been used as it is used with all of Palace’s work. The colours
we can see are very bland and the picture is very blurred, I have
taken this into account and I have used an image which I took of
Palace and have used this as the back cover of my digipak.

3.  Similar green tones have been used along with the white font. I
have also continued the white font on to the front cover of my
digipak and poster, along with very simple images. A lot of the time
we see that inide bands do not often use their faces on the front of
their digipak covers and normally use abstract artwork such as
Grizzly Bear – Horn of Plenty and The Antlers – In The Attic Of The
Universe.

4.  However I have challenged this idea and used an image of the
band on the front cover to show the band in action. I think it
works well as we can see all band members and they aren’t
looking at the camera and it gives off a casual feel. I think this
casual feel is important when dealing with the indie genre and this
image does it justice.

5.  We can also see that with Grizzly Bear that white
font is an occurring colour to use with indie
albums, I think the white adds simplicity to the arty
backgrounds. We can also see that the backgrounds
are the most important when it comes to the digipak
as it shows creativity. The writing is the least
important as we see with various covers, I had took
this into account and placed my cover name and
band in small and white font in the top left hand
corner. We can also see a common similarity
between my artwork and that of Grizzly Bear’s as
there is the same film grain filter effect on both.

6.  The way my performers are dressed throughout my music video
are similar to the ways typical indie bands dress. We can see here
with the music video Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the people we
can see that Mark Foster is dressed with a simple white t shirt
on, and the image above that show the full band dressed very
casually. In the typical indie music video the stars are not dressed
head to toe in big jewellery like R&B music videos and artists
such as Kanye West and Nicki Minaj.

7.  We can see with several indie artists such as Foster the
People, Arctic Monkeys and Cage the Elephant that
their clothing is not one of the most important aspects
to their music videos and draw little attention to their
costume.
 After looking at my video you can see that there a
similarities with the colour scheme and the subtle
colours throughout which are then repeated with my
poster and digipak as I have used the same font with
both.

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{ Evaluation Questions