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

My question was: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?


We were aware how important it was to have a consistent design, therefore we included the gritty background on both the blog and website creating continuity between products. As the templates on blogger didn't match what we were looking for we teamed a different template with our background to create the right mood.

We used links to the website to the blog and visa versa to make it easy for the reader to see all aspects of our project, we used a widget on Blogger to do this and simple links on Wix.



To link all the tasks visually we used widgets at the side of the blog to show the pictures we took on filming days, these are included on the website and digipack booklet. They prove effective in linking our music video to the blog as they serve as snapshots, compelling the reader to watch the final product.

The Prodigy fits into a dance/electronic genre. Their dark and gritty style is included in all our products an examples of this is the black and grey palette. To link our media product to the real Prodigy’s music and branding we included the ant they use frequently. I first noticed this reference when researching their past albums, http://roadmusicvideo.blogspot.com/2009/11/ancillary-task-cd-cover-design_06.html. Therefore using a bit of old school Microsoft Paint I managed to put this onto the ROAD sign to incorporate their conventional designs.



The dance genre usually connotes colour, something we've included in using yellow for the icons on the website. Whilst this is generally bare from our layouts in both products we were sure to keep our pictures mostly in colour to give a vibrant edge.




Our CD cover is a picture of Olivia with her hand towards the camera, as if reaching out to the potential audience. Whilst The Prodigy has a tendancy to go for more artistic design approaches, we felt using a picture straight from the filming days made a more interesting cover. As this cover can be found on both the blog and website it means they all interlink. Once again we have incorporated the offical Prodigy name art & title design linking the real band.

The website and blog look appealing as they have colourful pictures and no block writing making them inviting to read.