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

I think our video follows the conventions of a music video coming from the Rock genre, because we made sure to research videos from the rock genre so we could pick up codes and conventions and see how they were formed. All of the videos we looked at had either a whole video of band shots with a range of different camera angles, or a mixture between band shots and a narrative which is what we ended up doing.

My magazine advert and CD also follows the conventions. I researched many adverts and CD's from the rock genre to see what mine should look like before completing my draft work. Through my research I found out how I should set my products up, from the layout to how much I would say the CD will cost.

I wanted to make sure my products followed the forms and conventions of real products so they would be recognisable to audiences of our chosen genre. I feel the point of creating ancillary tasks is so you can announce that there is an album out that they can buy, so if for example, magazine advertisements are set out in a way that audiences recognise and know they like then they are more likely to go and check it out, however if they don't recognise it this could persuade them not to go and look at it because it's something they are not use to.