Question 1.In what ways does your media

product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real

media products?

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

products?

For my trailer I had decided for it to be a drama film. My decision was influenced by previous viewings of other drama films. The main one being ‘My Sisters Keeper’. This film was very successful and is a very well known film. When researching into the drama genre, I started to discover the ways that they are filmed and edited, such as camera shots and the pace of editing. I noticed that the camera shots involved lots of close ups, and also the editing wasn’t fast paced, compared to horror or action movies. By choosing the drama genre, this also meant that it wasn’t to much of a hard task when having to find appropriate locations to film.

Conventions•Realistic situations, characters and locations. this is done so that the storyline is relatable for the audience.

•We follow the journey of the character developing.

•Dramatic storyline is put in place to make the audience emotional.

•Main storyline is the conflict. This includes realistic struggles that an individual may face. Such as difficulty, death or pain. (In any form.)

My trailerOne of the most important factors of complying with other real media texts is the type of shots that are used. Before filming my trailer I identified the different types of shots that are commonly used in drama films. I found that these regularly were close ups to show the emotion of the characters and also long establishing shots to set the scene and to show the location. I included these shots to help represent the genre of my trailer.

As my trailer is drama genre, I used a long establishing shot in the opening scene of my trailer as the location is in a relatable place, which hopefully immediately sparks the interest of the audience.

PosterThe poster for the film ‘Fish Tank’ influenced me when it came to producing my own. I tried to do similar conventions of the poster, with things such as the image, star ratings and keeping it simple but yet effective.

I thought that the image was very dramatic and mysterious, as she is not looking at the camera, I think that this would draw in an audience as it would make you feel very inquisitive, about what is going to happen.

Magazine coverA real media product that I used to give me influence when making my own poster, was the ‘Total Film’ magazine cover. Although the image on the total film cover is a different genre than mine. I thought the layout was very professional looking, yet not too professional and sophisticated, to have no appeal to my younger target audience.As you can see, I tried to keep the headings and mast head of a similar style when creating my own cover. I thought the image was very striking. Looking directly into the camera is one of the main conventions of magazine covers, therefore this is what I asked the model to do in my image.