Q2-How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

When constructing our ancillary tasks, the main target that we set for ourselves was to fully incorporate the imagery and feeling created by the main task. The music video generated feelings of lonliness and isolation from the main characters point of view, and this cause the audience to empathise with him and feel sorry for him. In my opinion, these themes were the bedrock of our coursework and this is why we wanted them to feature in our ancillary tasks. However, the story of the song "Should've Kissed You" doesnt really have much to it - a boy that is upset with himself after not kissing the girl and therefore in his mind he ruined his chances - and for this reason we thought that too much information in the magazine advert or CD cover would in a sense give it away. After discussing this with my partner, we decided that we would limit the amount of information the consumer gets through the ancillary tasks.

It is evidenthere that some of the key elements of our main task are not included in either of our ancillary tasks, perhaps most impotantly the girl. We didnt want to add the girl to either because we wanted to give the audience the feeling of his lonliness and isolation in himself, but also we wanted to keep them guessing as to the reason for these emotions.

The shot used for the magazine poster and CD cover is one that reoccurs in the music video itself - a mid shot of the male character walking by himself, showing the emptiness of his surroundings.

It is evident from this still image of a scene within the piece the similarities in posture and expression between the main piece and ancillary tasks. The only other difference is that we edited our poster and CD cover in a black and white colour scheme. We decided to do this to add the the questions going through the audiences mind as to what the problem is, but also to enhance that dull feeling of sadness that the character is experiencing.