As part of our ancillary task we had to create both a magazine advert for our single and also the cover for the CD. Both of these we took the photographs for ourselves and then edited them on photoshop which is a program that none of us were extremely familiar with but we enjoyed using it to produce the final outcomes. For the magazine advert we decided to use a band member as we found this was a convention of many of the adverts in magazines such as NME and Rollingstone both of which were magazines which support indie bands and they are ones we looked at when gathering inspiration of our advert. A single band 
member was used and the clothes that he wore were important to convey the right genre of our video, I feel this came across successfully. The font chosen was also important as we did not want this to be too formal but instead one that was 'quirky' and we therefore chose the typewriter font as it was both different and grimy / care free looking, as well as standing out so that people would look at the advert and therefore be attracted to buying the product. The photograph was chosen from a selection of photos we took when doing a photo shoot with the band member, we tried to get the pose to be as relaxed as possible and have a instrument involved to give across the idea of him being a musician as well as the subtle idea of him sitting on a amplifier. The photograph was then putt into photoshop and edited heavily to give an almost electronic feel to the photograph that can be seen as a feature of band photographs in our genre as the musician is almost unrecognisable and it draws in the audience to looking at the advert. For our second part of the ancillary task we created a single cover for the song, this was done by setting up a photo shoot consisting of a plate of biscuits which continues the continuity of the theme of biscuits throughout our various tasks, with this we also placed a cup of tea and then photographed. With these photos we chose our favourite and then edited it using photoshop to balance the colours of the photograph and also to add steam to the tea. The back of the cover contained the singles name which was writen on a pile of biscuits which continued the continuity of the single cover. This idea of the cover was inspired by other indie bands cover such as The Maccabees and Vampire Weekend these album covers were simple and focused on an specific object and there was big, bold writing across these photographs with the title of the album or single on it. This was the same idea that we used for our single cover.
member was used and the clothes that he wore were important to convey the right genre of our video, I feel this came across successfully. The font chosen was also important as we did not want this to be too formal but instead one that was 'quirky' and we therefore chose the typewriter font as it was both different and grimy / care free looking, as well as standing out so that people would look at the advert and therefore be attracted to buying the product. The photograph was chosen from a selection of photos we took when doing a photo shoot with the band member, we tried to get the pose to be as relaxed as possible and have a instrument involved to give across the idea of him being a musician as well as the subtle idea of him sitting on a amplifier. The photograph was then putt into photoshop and edited heavily to give an almost electronic feel to the photograph that can be seen as a feature of band photographs in our genre as the musician is almost unrecognisable and it draws in the audience to looking at the advert. For our second part of the ancillary task we created a single cover for the song, this was done by setting up a photo shoot consisting of a plate of biscuits which continues the continuity of the theme of biscuits throughout our various tasks, with this we also placed a cup of tea and then photographed. With these photos we chose our favourite and then edited it using photoshop to balance the colours of the photograph and also to add steam to the tea. The back of the cover contained the singles name which was writen on a pile of biscuits which continued the continuity of the single cover. This idea of the cover was inspired by other indie bands cover such as The Maccabees and Vampire Weekend these album covers were simple and focused on an specific object and there was big, bold writing across these photographs with the title of the album or single on it. This was the same idea that we used for our single cover.
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