Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our media product does develop media in one such way and challenge the conventions; our main product showed it by the music video having a girly, but still an independent feel as to what you would usually see from a girl band, they had the typical costume, for the song, which is what the idea that was suggested by the feedback, but when it came to following the indie genre, having something not many people would see, that’s where we changed it, we didn’t have modern girly band look and we did not want to have the band featured as much as the story, which goes along with some indie artists, but then the style isn’t seen much, its sticking to the 50’s style of the song, which was an instant idea that we came up with. So therefore our final media product develops and also challenges real media products.

The second product is the advert, the first draft was generally just a hand drawn copy not of any standard that we could have used we just wanted a basic concept of what we wanted to create. The second was a closer image to what we wanted to create, but compared to other adverts, had nothing of what we’re trying to create, we wanted it took the same, to adverts, with editing onto the picture itself. We found a useful product called picmonkey, and this enabled us to create a more suitable image/advert to what we wanted to create, which is shown below as our final product, which was a way of showing against conventions as indie, is more random when you see bands such as mumford and sons, we wanted it to follow on the lines of the image we were trying to create as a band, which meant using examples from bands such as Spice Girls and All Saints as a way of developing media products for our own use.

This was one example of what we wanted to create as a media product and challenge it as well, by having all the girls in there, created out of pictures of themselves posing as well, which is what we ended up doing, we wanted a lot of their own personalities to show through as well as the groups image.

In my flat pack plan, our first draft was very simple and

again like our advert was a concept Idea; we only had one draft and one final as we felt we had everything ready when it came to our final idea of what we wanted. We took ideas from one way, how a book opens, such as the front cover opens into another picture and then another picture was shown and shown below is the final.

The first picture shown is the inside, which is different from what you would usually see as most bands and especially girl bands, usually want to promote the band, not what goes on during the filming or partying, but to us it seemed ‘independent’ which was also what we were trying to create, something no-one had seen before, which is why we have a design which reflects that, from the research we had not seen the design and thought that we could add more to do with the band and what they want to create.

So from what we have created, we wanted to develop what we had researched for our products and also challenged them, by making it seem our own, we wanted to be different from what we had seen from other bands, this is reflected in the products.