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Introduction:

Real texts are examples of media products that have been produced by other people in the 'real world'. These can be anything from films to music to posters or artwork and many more. These can be used to gain ideas of how products should be produced or organised which can be helpful or in some peoples eyes, detrimental to the creativity of someone producing their own work.

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The advantage of using real texts as a basis for your own work in the research and planning stage of production is that you can receive inspiration and ideas as to how to make the most effective media product possible. This can be things such as looking at conventions of genre for example to find what key aspects need to be in your media product to have maximum effect on the audience.

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On the other hand, using real texts to help create your products can stunt your own creativity and promotes copying and plajizm which can mean that the producers own ideas are blocked and stopped from going into the final product. This can mean that they end upo creating a very similar product which limits the audiences pleasure as they have seen the same, or a similar, thing many times before.

Conclusion/ Evaluation/ Summary/ Final Bit:

When creating our own media products as part of our A level course, we have taken the time to look into similar products to that which we are producing to gain ideas and inspiration as we ourselves had little experience to use to build our own ideas. For example, when creating our music poster and digipak as part of our Music Video Project, we researched into other bands' products and also into the conventions of the media products. This helped with discovering the contents of the products such as including tracklistings, record label, artist and many others. This meant that we could create the best product possible for our audience which was the overall aim of the task.
Therefore, we believe that the use of real texts has offered us many diverse creative opportunities throughout our media career and we shall continue to utilize them when producing and creating future products.