Question 1- Section 2In what way does your media product, use, develop

or challenge forms of real media products?

For my digipak I used the conventions of the four panel layout, this is because it is also a convention of the indie rock digipak I researched into. This can be seen with artists such as The 1975, Florence and the Machine, Lorde and Marina and the Diamonds. These digipaks are typically black and white which is a convention I used with my own digipak to attract the same audience.

Panel 1With my panel 1 I used the conventions of a typical indie rock digipak front panel. The main conventions are to have a black background with a white clean cut font. I used this convention because it attracts the audience demographic we were trying to reach with our video and digipak. Another convention I used was to have the name of the artist and the name of the album on the front cover so that the prospective audience will know the name of the artist and the album name.

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Research

Panel 2 and 3With my panels two and three I used the conventions of digipaks. Panel three is where the CD is placed, I chose the photo I did so that when the CD was placed over panel 3 it wouldn't cover my album artwork, the image itself is from my video and the panel 2 used the continuing motif of the blindfold. Another convention which we used was to include the photo of the actor from the video (which is usually the artist themselves) in the digipak.

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Panel 4My panel 4 links to my music video, this is because I used a screenshot from my video for this panel. I chose this for my panel 4, not only because of its visual links to my video but also because of the way it keeps to conventions of indie rock digipak back panels. The conventional layout of the 4th panel typically includes a barcode presented at the border of the panel, with the tracklist either presented at the side of the main image, or as part of the image itself (as with the lowermost research panel, of The 1975's eponymous album)

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Research

Conventions of magazine advertsMy magazine advert adheres to some key principles of those in the indie /indie rock genre; the minimalist approach to the quantity of text and information is one that is consistently used throughout the genre, from Lana Del Rey, to Biffy Clyro (the former more representative of Indie pop, but still applicable under the wider ‘indie’ macro-genre). The tendency of the adverts of the genre to utilize the imagery as a key pulling point Is one I stuck to in the formation of my advert; the main image is rather out of place, and draw attention to it’s unusual key part, that being the shirtless figure in the center, while keeping the fonts relatively small and thus maintaining an uncluttered and clean feeling to the advert.

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