1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge form and convention of real media products?
For the music video:
We used the following conventions: narrative scene, band scene, close up on band
members and on the instruments, locations which are urban and outdoor, and costumes
which are simple casual clothes.
Through our research we found out that indie band videos frequently have narratives and
having a band scenes. The narratives are often based on some personal issues between a boy
and a girl, therefore in our video is about the relationship of a girl and boy.
he costume’s the band is wearing are simple, casual clothes as from our music video analysis
we found out that a lot of indie bands i.e the Kooks, wear urban clothes. Plus through our
questionnaire we learned that majority of indie fans wear clothes which are urban and casual
clothes nothing high branded.
Use of close up: We used close ups of instruments and of band members as it creates band Locations: We used an outside location for our narrative part as in
identity and audience can recognise them, they are used to sell the band. most of indie videos the narratives a outside, however the
performance was indoor because while looking at different music
videos some of them had indoor performance especially on a white
background.Therefore we chose to do it indoor.
Costume: The costume’s the band is wearing are simple, casual
clothes as from our music video analysis we found out that a lot of
indie bands i.e the Kooks, wear urban clothes. This may be for the
reason that through our questionnaire we learned that majority of
indie fans wear clothes which are urban and casual clothes nothing
high branded, meaning that it is a way to sell the band.

2. Digipak
We chose a Digipak with eight panels. The conventions we followed are:
Colour contrasting,photos of band members and nature, use of font.
Colour Contrasting: The colour theme we used is blue, as Indie genre
uses colours which connotes nature and goodness.
While looking at other Digipak images they also have similar colour themes.
Photos of band Members and nature:
While looking at different Digipak we noticed that they contain images
Of Band Members, therefore we decided to include individual photos of
each band member, the colour scheme for those images is not blue but
instead in more brighter colours. This is so it creates a brighter effect and
allows recognition of band members which can help sell the band.
We also used images of nature,such as the wolf and the sunset,as indie
genre refers to nature and, additionally a special effect we used was is dot
to dot style of band photo. The stars effect make it Furthermore, for the front cover of the digipak
we had two ideas, to decide the final version we
asked people from our class which one they like
the best. In the end the image with the outlining
was most liked, therefore we chose it as it is
most appealing.

3. Poster
By looking at different Posters I found out that about each poster contains
the following conventions: Name of Band,Name of Album (including some
song names it contains), Release Date of the Album, Tour Date,Record Label,
Colour theme, a small image of album front cover.
Name of Band: This is a basic convention I used because without a name, the band
will not have a recognition making it difficult to sell the band. Additionally I noticed
that the band title is often at the top in large prominent writing. Therefore I made the
writing on our Poster in a light colour which made it stand out from the background,
the font size is large so someone looking at the Poster straight away notices the band
name and the font style is chosen to be simple, but not too plain.
Name of Album: Apart from the band name, the name of the album is also shown
prominently. Similarly as the name of band is meant to give recognition, the name of
Album is meant to give additional recognition of the band. Also displaying the name
of some songs the album has gives the audience more information about the band
and possible a certain song they look forward to. Which helps to sell the band.
Release Date of the Album: This convention is used for the audience to know when
the album will release and be available for them.
Tour Date; Tour Date's are a convention which help to sell the band, as if an audience By looking at the different posters I foun
member particular likes the band,he or she will have something to look forward to.
Therefore it is displayed clearly in light coloured font striking out from the dark that the name of the band had to be in
background for fan to be read easily. Plus using the light coloured font suits the indie
genre. writing to make it more prominent. The
Record Label: The record label is used to show which record label company is going to
is not very fancy but not to plain either
sell our album. Which will increase recognition. is useful to represent the simple but
Colour theme: We used the convention throughout our products. Similarly to the appealing effect of indie genre.
Digipak we used here the blue colour theme for the background, as indie genre often
matches with light colours and nature. The colour scheme of the writing is whit
Album front cover: The album front cover is sometimes shown in a small size on the since indie genre uses light colours. Plus
poster to show
having white writing on the black box, c
a great highlighted effect.