Question 1

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

To answer this question, I have separated it into 4 sections: genre, narrative structure, form, and style.
Genre:
A key part of constructing a particular genre is creating characters that are believable and suit that genre. We researched a lot about characters (particularly females) in action films.

• This is a venn diagram of typical characteristics of characters in action movies. The intersection is the traits possessed by the characters in 26 that we created.

• Normally action films have themes of good vs. evil, defying authority, morality and fighting for survival.
• There is normally strong iconography, such as guns, the fact that action films are normally set in towns or major cities (i.e. London, New York, etc.). The heroes often wear dark clothing (to be inconspicuous) and have high key lighting on the protagonist to show they are the "good guys"

Narrative structure:

Form & style:

Examples of titles in our film that we talk about in our soundcloud voiceover: 

Summary:

• Our film conformed to certain genre conventions, such as form and style of action films.
• However we did go against some genre conventions like characters, because generally action films have male protagonists but we decided to have 3 female protagonists of varying ethnicities.
• Our opening does conform to the typical narrative structure (as shown in the Prezi) but our whole film would challenge that convention because the disruption happens before the film starts.
• Overall, our film does follow some forms and conventions of the action film genre but it also challenges them.