Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text?

The Combination of our main product and ancillary text consist of; a music video, webpage, and album cover. Our Album cover is slightly connected to our video as the sparkling microphone shows the singers lust to be a star.

Before designing our album cover we decided to look at the bands original album cover. Here is a copy of the bands original piece.

After looking at these album covers we decided that they where very out dated and that we wanted to design a new album cover with a fresh look that was still in keeping.
After searching for suitable images of a microphone we found a retro style microphone that we all liked the look of. We then took this image and began to edit it on photoshop. We added a shine effect to make it stand out and be eye catching. By placing this image and text on a black background it stood out well aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Here is an example of an eye catching album cover on a black background;

We all agreed that a simplistic look was a good choice for album cover for many reasons. Often album covers get over crowded and are not easy going on the eye. After asking class mates family and friends what they thought of our cover, most agreed with our points stated above it was eye catching, stands out, easy on the eye, simplistic. We also asked if they understood the connection between the video and the cover through the form of the shining microphone showing his want to be a star. Most people we asked understood the connection between the two products.

Over all I thing the combination of our two products work well and both complement each other in their own individual ways.

Here is our Finished Album Cover the text is easy to read and stands out well it blends well with the image of the microphone.