Task 1

IN what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Through mise en scenes, performance base and editing in the video to help illustrates conventions and codes.

This mise en scenes is a conventional because of the mise-en-scenes as it is symbolic and it immediately helps the audience to understand it.

The cross is a methaphor for religion or judgement and having her in this position shows that she is guilty of something. this is semiotic because it offers a denotation and connotations to the audience what genre of the song is which is dark, edgy and narrative.

Another symbolic code which we used in the music video is through colours. In this shot, we see a contrasting colours to create an impact. White represents purity and innocense and the audience would have thought that she is a victim and whereas her boyfriend is in a dark shade of clothing signifying that he is a villain although he was murdered by her. This is to show that we are from the artist point of view and the audience are asked to take her side.  The fact that the murder happens on the bed signifies that he was in her territory and it also symbolise domestic as our main theme was about domestic violence.