Ancillary tasks

We had 3 options to choose for our ancillary tasks; a magazine advert, a DVD cover or a web page. Upon discussing the options we decided to go for the magazine advert and the DVD cover, we chose as we had an idea to produce to collectable colour schemes for the band, one that we already use, which is a deep purple and gold, or one that we chose which is a slightly more sophisticated. we got this idea from researching album covers done in the past and realised JLS had just done and similar thing, which of course if you have one colour scheme then encourages the consumer to buy the rest of the range, meaning bigger profits of the band, we added this colour scheme, not only onto a Magazine advert and DVD cover but also onto the actual CD and DVD.




We also looked at the 25 best album covers as voted for my Rolling Stone readers, something we noticed is that none of the covers are to crowed, they are eye catching, understated and quite a few use silhouettes, we chose to use one of the picture we had taken on the swings of the band, we edited the photo in photo shop, cutting the picture out s there was no back ground then put the four band members on swings next to each other, but we had them posing at all different heights, so it also made the cover a little more interesting, we then switched the colour scheme, added in some text and a date for the album.
For our DVD cover we kept to the same two colour scheme, but changed the pictures, we were originally going to use the same eddied photos, then we were going to use one of the band on a see saw, but both of these covers looked to familiar, a little boring and un professional, so we chose to use two pictures, one on the front, and one on the back. The front one was more classic of the band on a green screen posing and facing the camera, that we then just edited the green to be black or purple, and then added the picture onto the cover, using the band’s name above and the song title below the picture. We then chose to use one of the final photo’s we took of the band, of them walking away, we liked this photo as it makes the DVD cover look more interesting. One of the biggest problems we had was using the purple for the colour scheme, as we had to match the shade the band chose, to the DVD cover, magazine advert, CD and DVD, we used to different types of software to create our ancillary tasks, so obviously we couldn’t just use a standard colour, so I ended up creating out on colour scheme and saving it to the hard drive. This then made the whole project. I liked these ideas as they were simple but interesting and also look professional.



We also looked at the bands style on ancillary products, this was their first album artwork and it is a humours one that plays on their name, with the tramp hands holding an a tea cup. This is very much a first album cover though, show casing the band and what they stand for rather than conforming to song genre or pre established themes that fit with the connotations of the song, as the majority of album covers do.