2.How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary

texts?

• After completing this project, is clear to see that with my ancillary tasks, this project would have not been as successful, I am able to see this through the documentation on my blog.

• At the beginning of the project, I struggled with picking a genre and a song for my music video. After picking the song featured in Damages’ title sequence I followed other music videos associated with a similar genre; Nothing to Lose. This then made it easier to construct a narrative for my final product. Looking into the genre, I realized I needed a strong narrative for the audience to follow as that is typical to it’s genre conventions. While some audience’s may have different readings to the preferred reading (Stuart Hall), due to the polysemic nature of the video, the audience are open to interpret their own opinion of the video (Hebdidge), similar to Street Spirit by Radiohead’s video.

• I don’t think that my digipak and poster were as successful as my music video. I struggled with deciding who my artist was and the genre, which can be seen in my digipak and poster drafts. I took inspiration from the Distorture digipak, I thought that it was really simple and consistent throughout. I applied this to my own digipak by using black and white imagery throughout, which also adhered to the genre conventions. By using the same panel of a panel in my digipak for the image on my poster, it makes the two feel consistent and on a professional level.