In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (Ancillary task)

In my ancillary task I used standard conventions that you would expect to see on a flier. I included the email address and Facebook page of our band; the date; the venue and the name of our band. I challenged our genre by using a brick wall as my background; in doing this I represented the area that our band would be performing, in Koko which is situated in an urban area. All three of us are following the convention of dark clothing in my flier; the darker, dull colours help to emphasise the font and our band name. I chose the venue Koko as our band is not renowned enough to perform at larger venues; in doing this I also made sure my one-day flier coincided with James’ poster.

For my sections of the digipak I used and developed the conventions of our genre. For the background I had it mainly black and then drew neon lines over it in green blue and red. For my panel that the CD will go on, I had just this background to keep it simple as a lot of the time it will be covered by the CD or out of view. The background can look like neon chains, which resemble how people would be in a club, all linked together and dancing; or it could also show the links that the notes in the music make together. I also did the back panel which included the songs that featured in the album. Instead of a traditional layout of numbers and songs in a list; I decided to place some vertical, some horizontal and all in different neon colours to make them stand out.