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)