Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Question one


Evaluation

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

Within our media research, we have looked at the same and different types of genre of music to gain a full understanding of both conventions and forms of real media products, to be able to come up with ideas to put into our own music video. 

Within our research we have looked at different types of genres, to be able to find out how they would portray a 'failing relationship' and boys of the age of 15 to 25 are confused as to what they want and who they would like to be in a relationship with. The video in which we got inspiration from is Taylor Swifts 'You Belong With Me', we have got ideas from this video because the boy character is confused as to who he want's to be in a relationship with, so this is a convention we would like to show in our video because it is problems in which our audience can relate with. Another convention we have taken from this music video is that it is most typically the girl who get's hurt and is left behind and this is portrayed quite well in Taylor Swifts video because the character who Taylor Swift play's is a girl in which likes the main boy character but because he is confused as to who he wants to be with, he leads Taylor on giving mixed signals but the result to this is her being the one hurt. By doing this it helped us to gain an understanding of how to entice our audience to watch our music video if they were going through the same situation. To show these things in our video we have video the main boy character thinking about other girls whilst around his girlfriend and her getting upset about this, but we have also filmed them when the boy is in love with his girlfriend but that he is also confused, because he is confused about his feelings and a result of this is basically leading the girlfriend into false pretence that the relationship will last. 
Our fan base is both genders, who are teenagers to young adults. It also helped us to gain ideas for our video because of the age we are because, we could put in similar situations that had either happened to us or to people we know, by doing this it will help our audience to relate to the video more. 

A convention we have stayed away from is having the singer also play the role of the main character, we have chosen to do this because we wanted our video to be concept based, so that it gives the idea of a failing relationship and that it will also make our audience think about how they could go about situations like this.

Our video could also be considered stereotypical because, of the boy being confused as to what he wants, because it is most commonly known for the men aged between 15 to 25 to be confused to what they want, because they want both, as in be in a relationship and to be free and to be able to do what they want with out being hold down to one women. To show this in our video we have filmed the male character thinking of other girl's, to show this we have got the male character looking thoughtful and then there is a mind bubble coming from his mind, showing that he thinking of other girls, but the one girl who keeps coming back into his mind is his current girlfriend.  

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