Thursday, 12 March 2015

In Q1. What ways did your media product use, develop, or challenge the forms and conventions of real media texts?

My media product was based on the indie acoustic genre.
When researching this I looked at real media text examples of other indie acoustic genres for inspiration and to see what typical conventions of it I would consider including if I were to take on the genre as my media product base, which I did.

I feel that my media product is quite typically conventional of its genre, for a few major reasons as well as why it may havev challenged this.

Referring back to my research, in comparison to my video now I have ticked a few big boxes in indie genre such as performance being a big base of the video, instruments and band members getting a lot of screen video time, slow shots and combinations of camera angles, editing pace and visual effects, as well as the actual music itself.

Using the common forms of media such as a peaceful location which reflects soulful lyrics, I developed these and made them my own by directing how the duet show set themselves up in order or me to be able to film them keeping continuity.

What some indie acoustic videos do have is a storyline which follows a narrative, which I did not choose to have as I wanted a performative piece. I overcame this by using a range of shots and locations to suit different moods throughout the song to keep it interesting. 

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