Making Of The Ancillary Texts

When it came to creating my ancillary texts, a lot of research and planning was put into the process to ensure that my texts would look the best I could make them, but would also conform and appeal to the right target audience. While creating the panels on my digi-pack and my album poster, I decided to screenshot the steps I went through to get the outcome I wanted - however, the process I have gone through only presents what I did to achieve my first full draft which I have presented in a previous post, so this will not be my final texts, but also I haven't presented all of the different features I tried out to eventually reach these two drafts. Nonetheless, I have did save these drafts as different documents, so I have been able to present some of the features I tried out before I eventually decided I wanted to go with the features I used in my final first draft. Below you will be able to see the process' I have gone through to get the outcome I wanted for each of the panels on the digi-pack and also for the album poster:

Front Cover 

The very first thing I decided to work on when it came to my ancillary texts was the front cover for the digi-pack. There were an array of photos I had taken from my photo shoot which I could have used for the front cover, but below you are able to see the image I actually decided to use. Also, you are able to see that I have presented a before and after image for the front cover where you can see that there is quite a massive change - especially in terms of colour. Below these images I have presented the process I went through to get the outcome for this after image, but also I have demonstrated some of the various other features I tried out before I decided that I wanted my front cover to look like the image I have presented below. 

Here is the process I went through to get the outcome of the image I have presented above:

Back Cover

The next panel I decided to begin editing was the back cover, I personally think that this is the panel that took me the longest to create due to the fact that there are a lot more conventional features that needed to be placed on the back cover, but also I needed to ensure that the colour of the image itself and also the colour of Laura was similar to what has been presented on the front cover. Again, below you are able to see the before and after of the image I decided to use for the back cover, where again the majority of the change is in the colour. Nonetheless, I was able to get the outcome I wanted and below these images I have again presented the process I went through to get this image to look this way, but also, I presented the different drafts I went through before I got to this final piece. 

Here is the editing process I went through to ensure my back cover looked the way I wanted it:

Inside Right 

Similar to when creating the back cover, I did find editing the inside panel challenging and this was again due to the fact that it was hard to get the background colour and also the colour of Laura to look the same as in the front and back cover of the digi-pack - getting the background colour the same was not so hard, but it was mainly the colour of Laura due to the fact that in each of the photos I have used, Laura is under different lighting, so I had to add different effects to each of the images to ensure they looked the same colour to create continuity across the whole of the digi-pack. Below, you are able to see the before and after of the image I decided to use for the inside right panel, but underneath that, you are able to see the process I went through to get this outcome and also the different drafts I came across before I actually decided that I wanted the image I have presented below to be my final first draft image. 

Here is the process I went through to get the outcome of the image I have presented above:

Inside Left

Although Laura doesn't appear in the inside left panel, I still found it quite difficult to edit in relation to the colour and this is due to the fact that the top half of the image is brighter than the bottom half, so it meant that I essentially had to split the image in half in order to make the whole of the image look the same colour. Again, I have presented the before and after image below and you are able to see that I was not able to get the bottom and top half of the image to have exactly the same colour - nonetheless, I was able to get it as close as I could to make it fit in with the digi-pack and also look appealing towards the target audience. Underneath these two image, you will again be able to see the process I went through to get this outcome, but also you are able to see various drafts I came across before creating my final first draft piece. 

Here is the process I went through to get my final first draft piece for the inside left panel:

Disk 1

When it came to creating my first CD, there wasn't really a before and after process as all I decided to do was get a disk template from Google Images and then just create my first disk from there, where I would add all of the conventional features that I feel would be necessary. On top of that, when it came to using images for my first disk, I didn't use any of my own images and decided just to get designs again from Google Images as it went with my digi-pack more and I personally think it is more appealing. Nonetheless, I have again demonstrated the process I went through to get the outcome I wanted for the first disk, but have also presented the different drafts I created before I decided that I wanted this CD I to look the way I have created it to look. 

Here is the process I went through to get the first disk to look the way I wanted it to look:

Disk 2

Similar to the first disk, when it came to creating this second disk there was essentially no before and after process due to the fact that I just decided to get a disk template from Google Images and then decided to create my second disk from there. When adding conventional features to this second disk I essentially just copied the majority of the features that have been used on the first CD onto this one as most of the same conventional features needed to be used which included the artist and album name, some of the logos and even the background image which I just decided to change the brightness of to enable the audience to be able to tell the difference between both of the disks. Nonetheless, I did also add different conventional features as I will need the audience to be able to tell the difference between the disks as the first disk includes all of the music as it is a CD - whereas, this second disk includes videos and instead is a DVD. Again, below I have presented the process I went through to get the outcome I wanted for this disk, but also have demonstrated the different drafts I created before I actually got the outcome for the second disk I have created. 

Here is the process I went through to get the outcome I wanted for this second disk:

Spines

Creating the spines was probably the quickest and easiest part of the digi-pack and this was due to the fact that when it came to creating them, I had already edited the rest of the panels, so I already had the images edited in the way I wanted them to be, but also I had the fonts I wanted, so I was essentially just able to copy and paste the features from one of the panels onto the spines. Again, there is not a before and after process for the spines and this is due to the fact that when I constructed them, all I did was create a new document and then I just added conventional features from the other panels onto the spines which was beneficial as it enabled me to create continuity across the whole of the digi-pack. Even though this was all I did to create the spines, I still decided to create a slideshow which presents the process I went through to create these spines. When creating the other panels, I did create various drafts before I actually got the outcome I wanted - however, when it came to creating the spines I didn't actually make different drafts and instead ended up creating these spine straight away and I think this was due to the fact that there minimum information on these spines, but also due to the fact that they were the last features I created on the digi-pack, so I had already created the rest of the digi-pack in the way I wanted it. 

Here is the process I went through to create the spines I have presented in the image above:

Album Poster

Creating the album poster was actually quite easy and this was due to the fact that I had already created my first draft for my digi-pack, so I essentially just needed to use the same features that I used in my digi-pack to ensure that continuity would be created across both the digi-pack and the album poster. In this poster you are able to see that I have used the album cover, which is what made the creation of this poster easy for me as I just had to insert this image and then add any conventional features that are usually seen on an album poster. Again, there is not a before and after image for this poster due to the fact that there was no before image that had been used and again I essentially just copied the features that had previously been used on my digi-pack. Nonetheless, there were some conventional features which I did create from scratch which again can be seen in the slideshow I have demonstrated below which presents the process I went through to create this final album poster, but also I have presented the different drafts I actually created before I constructed this final first draft album poster. 

Here is the process I went through to create the album poster which I have presented in the image above:

Drafts

As I have previously said, when I was creating my digi-pack and album poster I did try out a range of different features to see what would suit the texts the most and in the process' I have presented above you are not able to see the features I tried out as I have just shown the process I went through to create the final first drafts - nonetheless, below I have constructed a presentation which includes some of the drafts I created before I managed to get the final first draft designs which have been presented under the headings above. In the images I have demonstrated in this presentation, you are able to see that the panels and the poster are not complete and this is due to the fact that at the time of creating these I was just trying out different features to see if anything would be suitable for the texts and was not expecting to get a final piece at the time. 

Here is the presentation which includes some of the drafts I had created: