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

I feel that both parts of our practical project, (The music video and the print based work) are very effective. The video is very unnerving as we do not know the character behind the mask until about 3/4 of the way through the video. Also the idea of a character being chased by themselves is a very odd idea and suggests not only a sense of guilt but also an unstable metal state causing their own mind to project other forms of themselves, this is very similar to the film Fight Club.

 The poster and print work give a very haunting look to the audience, again as a means of unnerving them. The idea of the mask is the main motif for the video and so was the obvious choice as the backdrop for both the poster and CD cover. Below is the finished poster.

This poster is similar to the cover for the film, The Decent, which uses the idea of a face, in this case a skull to unnerve the audience and hint at the film itself, much like our entire project. There is an interesting point here as from this it looks like our poster is more influenced by film posters. the way our poster looks is very cinematic and so this is why we found it easier to use some of the techniques from them as opposed to more music based posters. Another thing was that we found it very hard to find CD advertisements that used the same sort of style as our own. Most Music advertisements, no matter what the genre is will feature one of two images. Either they will feature the same picture that will appear on the CD cover or a picture of the band/logo itself.

The CD cover is very similar to both this film and our own poster as it uses a similar image.