Sunday, March 13, 2011

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

My magazine advert and Cd cover both combine well as one. They are both different and use different ideas however it is clear they are portraying the same band and album. They both use a heart as the main idea and image which bring the two different products together however they are used in different ways. On the magazine advert the heart is being squeezed by a hand with the blood dripping through the hands fingers, however, on the CD cover there is two hearts sitting in a white bowl with a spoon next to it. This is a literal image for the album name 'Blood For Breakfast'. We used this image as a person would traditionally use a bowl and spoon to eat your cereal in for breakfast, however, instead of cereal we used hearts as the cereal and blood as the milk. This then turned the whole idea to fit our genre and be grusome and sickly. We used the colours black and red throughout both tasks to bring them together. Also the fonts for the band name 'Malice' are the same on each task as we wanted to keep that the same so it was easy to spot and identify each one even though it was on a different product. Lastly we used a little logo of a silhouette of someone playing the drums on the products in small to combine the two pieced together as shown below.

2 comments:

  1. Good post.

    For the heart and spoon breakfast sentence. Develop on it and says how if someone saw the album cover, when they see the spoon and bowl they will automatically assume it to be full of 'cereal' however there a heart in it. This would then intrigue the viewer and attract their attention, and also present a message to the viewer about the genre (talk about the message)

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  2. Visual material. Also perhaps get some audience feedback on how effective the link is between all 3 products.

    MCU

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