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

I think that my music video, my magazine advertisement and my CD digipak all combine well to make a good final product. I took the idea of some of the shots in my music video being black and white and the idea of the storyline being dark and dismal and applied these things to my two ancillary texts. When I thought about all of the things in my music video, I thought of calling the band Black and White however this seemed rather obvious so I decided to call the band Noir and Blanc. This name also has references to film noir. The images I used for my digipak and poster are all images that I took when out shooting my video on the council estates of Hull. I chose to use the images of tower blocks and the phone box as they are iconic images of working class Briton. This also gave all of my products a sense of cohesion. I didn’t just take the images from my camera and place them straight into my digipak, I edited them first. I turned all of the pictures into solid hard contrast black and white images using publishers editing tools as they gave me the exact effect I was looking for. This also gave them an arty look to go with the French band name and the fancy “bleeding cowboys” font I used.