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

Mise en scène I used mise en scène in my video

to help set the mood of the scene. For example you can see in the top picture, by the objects being shown that the character still has a little hope in her life even though this is contradicted by the back and white filter. The bottom picture, with the fairytale pictures stuck on the mirror are very deliberate and add to the plot and character development. I think my product uses and develops the forms and conventions of real media products by similarly, carefully placing the props to aid the imagination of the audience

Mise en scène – real media example

In Ed Sheeran’s video ‘give me love’ mise en scène is used to convey the idea of loneliness and pain which adds to the development of the story. This is similar to my music video and the effect the mise en scène has on the story.

Hoziers ‘Take me to Church’ also uses mise en scène to help the audience interpret the story. It uses wide open spaces to convey freedom and over the shoulder shots with smashed up scenery and fire to convey a fight/danger. Its use of mise en scène really adds to the understanding and interpretation of the song. This, I believe is similar to my media product.

Magazine Advert The main bulk of the text on my

advert is central to the poster, this is like other products I have seen. This is good because it draws attention to the artist and the album. The background of my advert isn’t a typical image you would find for this type of advert but I thought it fitted well with the album name and the coulors make it easy to see what is being promoted. The logos at the bottom are aspects you would find in real media products and help the audience to find the artist online.

This is a similar product to my magazine advert. As you can see the colours make it easy to read and see what is happening in the advert. The artists name is centered and larger than the rest of the font. Also at the bottom of the advert, like in my poster are the social media logos letting you know where you can find the artist. I think my poster mirrors the conventions of this advert and perhaps develops it a little by adding features such as the digipak

Magazine Advert – Real Media Product

Here is another advertisement. Again you can see that the artists name and the album is central to the poster. This poster is a little different to mine as there is a clear split between the imagery and the information. This poster also features more information about the track list. My poster also originally had the same sort of information but after responses from my focus group I shortened it to suit what my audience wanted. You can also see on this poster, at the bottom in the conventional place is the logos and links on where to find the artist/purchase the album.

Digipak

Here you can see that my artists is being represented as purely by her talent as an artist, she isn't being sexualised in any way, which goes against the typical forms and conventions of real products. There are features of the digipak, such as the biography parts that arent always found on digipaks can be found on some.

In this digipak, Beyoncé is being shown as quite sexualized in her leather outfit and images showing off her body. This is quite typical for the pop and RnB genre. You can also see a large body of text which is a biography for the artist. This is similar to my digipak

Digipak – Real Media Product

This digipak is more abstract than the typical digipak but it is suited well to the artists. It also shows that digipaks don’t necessarily have to have pictures of the artist on them.