Task 1. In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Colour

 Colour is used in every form of media; colour can have a much larger effect than people think.

Colours can have a big effect on someone’s mood and the way they think about something. In the image on the left from Ghostwood’s Red Version. The main and most prominent colour is red, this as described earlier could symbolise a sense of risk or approaching danger.

However a lack of colour can also be used in order to add emotive quality to a video to allow more focus on the band or performance in question so that there are not too many distracting elements, as we can see in the image on the left from an INTERPOL video they have used this technique.

As you can see from the still taken from my video, there are moments where there are hardly any colours introduced into the video. Again this was a technique used to allow more focus to be centred around the performance itself and on the band rather than overwhelming the mind with too much information.

As you can see here, there is a significant use of colours; the colour choice of blue, green and plain tungsten lights was a carefully decided one. These are colours which have representative meaning to the song in question. And I have tried to use them in order to create further understanding towards the meaning of the song.