Date post: | 03-Jul-2015 |
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In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?
Matt Duval
In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products? For our A2 Level Media studies final project we decided
to create a short film. For the ancillary tasks we chose to
create a film review page and a poster for our film. Both
of the ancillary tasks and the main film needed to be
closely linked so that the audience could see that they
are all related to each other.
I believe that all of our pieces go together very well. We
have used forms and conventions of real media reviews,
posters and short films. In some cases we have
challenged the conventions of films and media texts.
How we used conventions of real media
products Our film also has a clear message which is reoccurring throughout the entire film. The
message is that ”there will always be someone bigger and better than you.”
While researching other short films we have found that lots of other shorts contain a
similar message. For example “the bulling effect” contains the message “you never
know what your bulling might lead to”. This is one of the examples of our film
using the conventions
of real media products
(short films).
How the message is
shown in
“The Bulling Effect”
This is how we show the
message in he message in
our short film. (by using
increasingly taller people in
each scene)
How we challenged conventions of real
media products
Our short film has some funny parts in it which is uncommon in short
films that show bulling. This is one of the ways that we chose to
change/challenge the conventions of real media products.
Screenshot from our Short Film
showing bulling
Screenshot from “The Bulling Effect”
also showing bulling
Other ways we challenged conventions of
real media products
The main focus in our short film are the two characters that sitting on
the small black leather sofa. These two characters change one at a
time throughout our film. The shorter of the two is always replaced
with a noticeably taller person. This happens 3 times during our
short film. It is uncommon that the actors will change so regularly
during a 3-5 minute short film. We have chosen to challenge this
convention to put emphasis on our message.
Screenshots from our Short Film showing the various actors and the location.
(Mise-en-scène)