When looking at our ancillary texts, we had to make sure that we selected the right one in order to show our artist the specific way that we wanted her represented. We all decided that we wanted Mikah in a dominating position which is why we wanted her to have the bat included within the picture. We also wanted Mikah in the similar style of clothing that she has worn throughout the music video which is why we chose the cropped hoodie and black jeans. Although the cropped hoodie conforms to typical R&B conventions, the pictures of Mikah make it seem like she has a longer hoodie on, thus covering her midriff and subverting the sexual R&B stereotype. We also wanted Mikah to look natural within the pictures which is why we let her get into positions that she felt the most comfortable in. This is why you can see within the pictures that she is sitting down, has her hand on her head and has the bat cover her body. Although this body language may seem as though Mikah is shutting herself off to the public, we thought that having her look natural and comfortable within the pictures allows for her to connect with the target audience and to show that she is a normal person just like them. As you can also see to the right of this writing, we got some close up shots of Mikah and her piercings. We done this because we wanted to show off her 'trademark' that Goodwin said helps an audience to recognise an artist. Due to Mikah's piercings being her trademark, we wanted her to have her hair up and to do a few close ups in order to showcase the trademark we want her to be known for. However, we decided that we didn't want to use the images on our ancillary texts because it didn't particularly look as good as we wanted it to and it didn't really fit in with the rest of the digipak/poster which was unfortunate.
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