Script for Question One

Chloe: 'in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real   media products?
Me: Well to start with we used the conventions of Goodwins theory. For example: 'Genre Characteristics - we followed the genre by having shots of abi, having a narrative of throughout and also having an actor and actress which was chris and I.
*screen shot of abi as artist and screen shot of chris and I*
Me: We had a strong link between the lyrics and visuals throughout as we thought the lyrics were so powerful and meaningful that if we stuck to the lyrics then it would reflect the amount of emotion within the lyrics. An example of how we did this was showing a shot of the couple together on the stairs and then a shot alone. This was when the song was saying 'footsteps on the stairs'. So our visuals were very illustrative of the lyrics.
*screen shot of the stairs bit*
Me: For the notions of looking this is will be through photo frames and also the notions of watching the couple.
*Shots of the photo frames*


GENRE OF THE PRODUCT!


Me: when looking at existing Rihanna videos and other artists such as Leona Lewis which fit into our genre I was shown that the videos generally include a storyline, different shot types, clips vary in brightness, good lip syncing, shots of the artist and actors and actresses. So therefore from this we made sure that our video included these. 


*screen shots of these*


Me: After looking at various existing videos I got a lot of useful inspiration. Such as Taylor Swifts video 'mine' I got the inspiration of the shots going back and forward from the past to the present. also the photo aspects. Beyonce broken hearted girl had flashbacks in black and white, which showed the emotion. I thought this would work well with our video of showing Chris alone in the present to show hes lonely and sad.


*screen shot these videos*


Our Ancillary texts also match the conventions. We did this by looking at existing products and then making sure we had these. These include, record label, dvd video logo, classification e.g. 12, the title of the artist, the title of the album, a quote e.g. from mtv, release date, hyperlinks, barcoding for digipak and bonus material for digipak.