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

Our product follows the basic conventions of British Social Realism films including a council estate setting, unknown actors, realistic lighting and a regional dialect

We felt it best to stick to these conventions as they are the key aspects of the genre and wouldn’t have been as effective if they were not followed

The issue of suicide and to a lesser extent, domestic abuse, is represented in our product. These issues are found to have a higher rate of occurrence in the lower classes shown in the film. Our target audience of teenagers/young adults can relate to the main character’s issues as they are of a similar age and can therefore relate and sympathise with her. Therefore we are following the conventions of British Realism films in showing an issue that that affects the general public and specifically, those suffered by the lower classes

In our film we have an emotional moment near the start and this creates empathy for the girl. She doesn’t appear to be likable at first but then the audience feel sympathetic towards her. This challenges conventions of Social Realism films as not much action is shown in them this early on