Research and planning;

We wanted to make something that replicated a DVD and CD cover as much as possible.
Our research has shown us some really good examples, and from this we have produced a high standard ancillary product. Our front cover replicates that of a metal band such as Black Dahlia Murder.

It has similar artwork to our front cover, this is the front cover for Black Dahlia Murder.



We originally wanted to copy the conventions of the Black Dahlia Murder, we wanted to copy their video also but seen as this was a little too ambitious we decided against it. We have since shot the music video, and to make our ancillary products we have used replicas of the cover above.

For the back cover we have used an image of the band (see below). We have used this and distorted it a little because we feel that our back cover is well represented. According to Dyer (1985) this is presenting reality over again to us as an audience. Reality is mediated through forms of representation, and this has been represented successfully.



This is the final product of our back cover, we are going to tweak the product if necessary but so far we are both extremely pleased with the ancillary product.



For us to make a back cover which was this good, we took some inspiration off the Bloc Party album.



We have incorporated the same text with the same sans-serif font, but we have changed the picture to highlight that it's a metal band. I feel that the picture is a reflection of the band because the aesthaetics to the image are quite grainy and distorted.

In creating our media product, we had to meet the codes and conventions of being able to reach out to a specific audience. Our demographic audience for this band would be a 21 year old male who likes to socialise, go wild and likes heavy, fast music.

For us to be able to meet the verisimilitude expected from any metal video, we watched many music video's, in lesson and outside of lesson to enhance our knowledge of what should be expected.

There are shots in this video by the Dillinger Escape Plan of the band's performance, we really liked this so we asked the band if they could act naturally. We were going to create a music video of a complete performance, without any narrative structure to it because we can focus on the editing techniques on the video, and so far, the editing techniques are going to make the video what it is. A lot of metal video's have a subjective point of view in their video, with close-ups of the band playing their instrument or singing.



Again, as mentioned previously before, the excessive use of editing techniques are frequently used within the metal genre when producing videos, so we have used plenty of editing techniques within our video to enhance the verisimilitude of our product.