1. In What Ways Does Your Media Product Challenge or Develop Conventions Of Real Media Products?


I feel that first and for most both the music video and the print based work have been a massive success. To begin with the music video does go along with many normal media concepts from both metal music and music videos and also films in some cases, an example of this is with the trunk shot that we used as part of our video. The main example of this is when we used a Trunk Shot, which is shown below. This shot was a favourite of Quentin Tarentino and as well as our own, many examples of his have also been shown.

Here are some of the other shots we used from the scene where we see why the main charcaters conscience is chasing him in the rest of the video.

The actual base for the video was to use both a narrative and live footage of the band. this worked very well and it also goes along with many other music videos of a similar genre, for example:
Black Veil Brides - Rebel Love Song
Bullet For My Valentine - Tears Don't Fall

The Video did also challenge some aspects of media products as well though. The use of handheld camera is very rare in music videos and also the fact that no green screen was used, meaning all the footage was shot on scene.

Much the same can be said about the print work. the CD cover featured motifs from the video such as the mask and also contained band thanks and the song lyrics. The poster was simple and yet very effective and also featured the mask motif used in the video. Below are the main images that represent the video, CD cover and poster.

You can also see on these images that they have been through a process of editing, for this we used Photoshop and were put into the correct shape and size using In Design.

The CD cover itself is very similar to the Album Slipknot by Slipknot as it uses masks to hide the identity of a person. The different here is that this the band hiding their identity rather than a character in a music video, which is the case with our work.

The poster isn't really similar to anything in particular but it does use the same techniques and similar photographs to the CD cover which shows they are from the same group. The poster is shown below.

All of this put together shows how the package we have put together does for the most part keep to media concepts as this is what has shown to be successful particularly in the world of Heavy Metal Music.