In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media
products from your genre?
challenge forms and conventions of real media
products from your genre?
In our media project we tend to follow a lot of the conventions of our genre because it provides the audience and us some familiarity with the genre itself. Our genre which is Social realism needs you to follow the conventions because it can dissolve the barrier between genres and make it all a bit confusing. We use mise en scene and certain camera shots to get the tension and genre across, as well as voice overs and sounds.

When it came to location we decided to consult some real media texts to get a feeling of what sort of location we should shoot at, we decided after seeing the real media texts and also through our discussions about what would look best, we decided we would like to have our whole short film, filmed in a rough area where its quite secluded, were there is graffiti, litter and its quite dirty. We found a perfect lane which ticked all those boxes and helped us follow the conventions.


Editing was the last thing to do but was by no means the least important, because this was when we could compile our shots together into a feasible and interesting final project. In this section we did challenge the conventions a little because we used fade to white effects to show that the story had gone back in time to a flash back. Then we challenged it again by changing the lighting in the flashback to show that it was different to the current day. This challenged the conventions but I still feel it did not alienate the final product to any other social realism short film that we had previously used to help us keep to the conventions.