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

However, as well as the videos that influenced our music promo, we had to think about what would look well on our Digipak and Magazine article. For this we studied a range of different magazines and Digipaks done by an acoustic band. There are a range of different items that are displayed on a magazine article. These are;

-         The band/Artist

-         Bold writing

-         The band/artist name

-         The title of their new album/song

-         The release date

-         How it is going to be produced (for example CD/Vinyl)

-         Details of the artists/bands websites (Facebook, official website etc…)

-         Reviews

-         Barcode

-         A price

   The Florence and the Machine magazine article (2009) influenced us because of the type of writing used. It was bold and stood out well amongst the image and black background. It also reflects back on the artists CD cover. The image in the middle stands out, and therefore we wanted to create something similar to this where the writing was eye catching and revealing to the target audience.

Even though this magazine article helped us a lot with our idea, we felt that doing a collage of different images would be more down the line we wanted to go. What inspired us to do this was the music promo itself. We wanted to make the magazine article and the music promo have a link and by creating the collage of old images kept the ‘childhood’ idea in mind.

 The Digipak I felt was the more difficult ancillary task out of the three things we had to do. This is because we have to advertise the CD and make it stand out to the audience (eye catching). No real CD/Digipak inspired My group and I however from the range of different Digipaks studied, we could pick out what was needed to be put on a Digipak;

-         The band/artists name

-         The title of the CD

-         A list of their songs

-         Perhaps something related to the genre (a guitar)

-         Or even an image related to one of their songs (old photos)

-         Barcode

-         Music/Company Industry Logo
An example of a Digipak that I found was this one from the band ‘festival’. It’s 

bright and colourful (it definitely caught my attention). It also has images of the band and what instruments they play. It’s a different layout compared to other bands because they have notes written on the inside (or perhaps even their songs). However something like this is to be kept in mind.