1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The genre of our music video was a popular music style which follows most music styles by having a narrative and story. Since the song is about a Geeky youth who falls in love with one of their classmates and then ends up dating her after changing his appearance etc. We matched the lyrics into the song when the main singer is in the video for a chorus or two, if the singer wasn’t in it, the video matched the storyline of the lyrics.
Like most pop videos, we used a main character to base the video around, Since the song is about a geek, we decided to base the video around Geeky character, Also like main pop videos we had the artist who sang the song, to be a part of the video and sing along to certain sections of the song.
An example of this is the music video of Taylor Swifts ‘Love Story’. Even though she represents the main character and the singer of the song, it still is the same concept of what we represented in our music video.
The main representation in our video is the geeky looking teenagers/youths. Our video presents young people as smart, scared youths and unpopular, although we know this is all to do with feeling out of place. This idea of feeling out of place and scared of what you want to say promotes the video as being aimed at teenagers. These representations are typical of the media, to display youths as shy and unpopular, however we do this as part of our storyline to show how shy young people are with their boring everyday lives can change to express how they really feel in certain situations.
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