Thursday, 25 February 2016

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?








For my media product, I created a house style that is reminiscent of the Pop-Punk genre in order to ensure continuity. I did this by firstly ensuring that my front cover, contents page and double page spread used the same colour scheme throughout, being blue/black, white/grey and red.

I used the same fonts throughout my media products those fonts being...








The artist on every piece was the same, my own fictional band of The Boston Buried. This band matches conventions in a number of ways. For starters, they are a primarily rap-rock band, and are equipped with the clothing and props similar to that of a primarily rap-centered artist/group, such as hoodies, as seen here.



However, the masks are definitely a challenge to conventions of the genre, as almost no band, not even specifically in the rap-rock genre, are know for wearing masks. The only other band that does this is the band that I drew inspiration from, Hollywood Undead




The colour scheme used for my media products is non-typical, and challenges conventions of pop-punk. My colour scheme contains primarily dark colours, through the dark blue background and the dark grey hoodies, and even bright masks. The most well-known band from the genre, Hollywood Undead, uses either all dark or all bright colour schemes, unlike the Boston Buried which sports a mixture such as dark grey and light red.


Friday, 5 February 2016

Front Cover Creation

This is the second draft of my magazine front cover. These three images show the progression of my cover, after the images where cropped and placed onto the cover itself.





At this stage in the development, the main headline and the quotes had not yet been rotated to the left, and looked slightly plain without the grime effect.



This was prior to the introduction of the masthead and any of the headings, and when the members where arranged in another, more clunky position. This was also prior to the masthead being moved behind the primary member.
               








This was the front cover from where I took the majority of my inspiration, An issue of Big Cheese Magazine with Hollywood Undead gaining a place on the cover. The masthead is behind the heads of the members in this cover, and I decided that only the center member should be placed ahead of the logo in my front cover.

Usable Front Cover Photos

                          Usable Front Cover Photos


Because I plan to make one person appear as a whole band, it was imperative that I took a very large amount of photos. Out of the 160 that I took, here are the possible candidates to put on my front cover.

Keep in mind, I plan to make 4 band members: one on the left facing left, one on the right facing right, a center member stood up, and a center member crouched.




















Here is the main member positioning I'm considering. The one above this image is an alternate version with the side members flipped.










Contents Page Creation







Thursday, 4 February 2016

Mask Creation Photos

                                Mask Creation Photos


Here I'm including specific photos of the large amount that I took (around 160 in total) showing the creation of the masks, their developing designs, different stances and clothing combinations that were considered.


To kick things off, here are some of the original, unedited photos of me and my accomplice wearing the unpainted masks in a few different poses and with a couple of camera angles.









                             
                               Moreover, here are some photos depicting the painting process.










Additionally, here is a selection of photos detailing the various positions I plant to use on my actual front cover. To complete my plan of having four people on the front cover, with only one person being used, I needed something different to help the characters seem unique, and not make the reader's first thought be "that's the same guy". For this clothing changes where obviously necessary




















Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Hollywood Undead-My Main Inspiration

                              Hollywood Undead

Just to give you a better idea of my selected band, which I plan to take the majority of my inspiration from when designing my products, here's an overview of  Hollywood Undead.



American Rap-Rock band formed in Los Angeles, released their debut album on September 2nd 2008 labelled 'Swan Songs'.

Consists of 5 members-

News articles in my genre

Here is a summary of recent news stories from the Pop-Punk/Rap-Rock genre that I plan to use on my front cover.

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst : "we don't listen to rap-rock"

Hollywood Undead announce tour dates for 2016

Deuce solo career taking off-hints at new album

Linkin Park sing "rolling in the deep" Adele cover

Hollywood Undead: "Bullet is a happy suicide song"

Hybrid Theory named best rap-rock album