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

Within our media product we used, developed and challenged many different forms and conventions.

Used Conventions/Forms
Within our opening, one convention we have used is titles. Titles are not essential for an opening sequence, however they knowledge the audience of the people who were involved not only in the film, but also behind the scenes.

Developed Conventions/Forms

We developed the theme of our product, not only discussing the genre of our film but also the sub genre of it.  As a group we decided that our genre will be a thriller, to develop this we thought that we would create a Psychological Thriller.

Challenged Conventions/Forms

Within our product, we Challenged the stereotypical 'damsel in distress' character and also the 'muscly male' character.  In our opening, even though the female character is tied up, she develops her understanding of where she is and why shes there by taking control.  This causes the audience to sympathize for this character and makes them want this character to be okay.  This also means the audience start asking questions like 'who is she?' 'why is she there?' etc.  This is similar to 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' however, their lead female character is more extreme.



We also challenged the use of equilibrium (disequilibrium).  Our product is out of the ordinary, however this is similar to other thrillers so therefore follows the typical features of our genre.