1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge form and convention of real media products?
For the music video:
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. Plus through our
questionnaire we learned that majority of indie fans
wear clothes which are urban and casual clothes
nothing high branded.
Mis en scene: We chose a urban area
as a lot of indie videos are often in
urban areas, around city with people.
2. Digipak
For the Digipak we used one with eight
panels since it would have plenty of space for
photos of the band members and to have
some other images relating to the indie
genre. Such as shots of nature scenery etc. As
Indie bands are down to earth therefore for
the front cover we used a wolf, with a dark
blue background. At the back of the Digipak Furthermore, for the front cover of the digipak
however we decided to use a simple image of we had two ideas, to decide the final version we
nature, which is meant to creates a pleasant asked people from our class which one they like
effect but also is not distracting as we had the best. In the end the image with the outlining
the song titles of the album at the back of it. was most liked, therefore we chose it as it is
most appealing.
3. Poster
While designing the poster there were a few
points to consider, that it had to be tightly
framed, and the layout had to be in an order
which would make the poster stand out. For
the reason that if a Fan, or an audience
member looks at the poster, he or she
focuses on the Band and the information on
it, there shouldn’t be anything distracting.
Therefore I looked at different posters for
sample, to decide what to needs to be on the
Poster, and made rough sketches of different By looking at the different posters I found out
possible styles. that the name of the band had to be in large
writing to make it more prominent. The Font
is not very fancy but not to plain either which
is useful to represent the simple but appealing
effect of indie genre.
The colour scheme of the writing is
white, since indie genre uses light colours.
Plus having white writing on the black
box, creates a great highlighted effect.