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- 1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 2. What Media platforms have we used? When presenting our film, the platforms that have we have used are •
- 3. What types of conventions are there in film media? • Conventions = An established way of doing something • Generic Conventions = conventions which we associate with a particular genre • Filming conventions = conventions which we associate with film • Magazine Conventions= review & print
- 4. Generic Conventions of a real media product • Example: Filming conventions Credits, shot sizes e.g. close up camera angles, technical codes (lighting and music). Audiences recognize these features and expect certain things. For example, at the end of a romantic comedy film the two lead characters will realise they are in love. • Example: Magazine Conventions Empire Magazine for example – we would expect to see images, shock headlines, bold writing, brief reviews and a star rating of a film.
- 5. Forms and conventions of our film: • Technical-‐ Camera angles used in a teen drama are often close up to build tension. We used: lot of wide shots to capture the environment of the scenes (i.e. peer pressure of groups). • Symbolic – we used the typical narrative of the popular teen rejecting the ‘loser’ but also had this over Facebook to show the modern era we are in. • Verbal – We used modern day slang and abbreviations to show the age group and the “catchy” phrases that the in group think are cool”
- 6. Genre: Conventions for a teen dramaThe types of conventions you get in a teen drama are: Types of Cliques • Jock/ Cheerleaders • Geeks/ Nerds • Emos/ Goths • Loners • Stoners • Popular for being popular • The artsy people e.g. artists, actors For our film we did not use most of these conventions but we did use the convention of the popular teens and the geeky nerdy teen who is shunned by the group.
- 7. Our decision to challenge the teen drama conventions The ending – the main character ends up alone rather than with the geeky guy that she likes because he found someone else.
- 8. Examples of Teen Dramas Defying Conventions • Mean Girls – very stereotypical in characters but defies the rom com part of teen dramas. Very successful film. • The Fault in Our Stars – this film uses the convention of young love but the main character dies. No happy ending. Incredibly successful. • Scary Movie – This branches into the sub genre of teen-‐horror so challenges the typical teen drama convention.
- 9. Our use of conventions • Inspired by – Wild Child and Mean Girls because of how engaging the films were even though parts were very predictable. • We developed the following conventions: • “popular girls” -‐we improved this by having the main girl not being a mean girl. • Stereotype of the geeky boy – we developed this by him getting a new girlfriend • Peer pressure – extended this by having the main character ditch the popular boyfriend • The protagonists moment of realization – (when she realizes she likes geek) – we made more prevalent by having the actress “stalk” him on Facebook.