Evaluation question 1

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

Convention: The way in which things are usually done. An example of a convention is that conventionally humans walk on two legs, upright.

In comparrison

I have choosen to compare it to a conventiona teen drama called "Adulthood"

One large differene in comparrison with our movie is the amount of drama happening on the scene. There is a lot of drama in that trailer whereas, our video has 2 dramatic 7 second flashback and most is focussed on the boxing. We choose to use boxing as our main focus so that our film could be part of a much wider audience. This means that in comparrison the film is less conventional as it does not focus just on teen life.

Camera
Another point worth notocing is the lack of establishing shots in both. This is done deliberately in our film as we felt that the enviroment did not need to be established, it also allows the aduience to feel closer to the charaters and the scene developing.

Mise en Scene
Our mis en scene is fairly minimal and does not feature any stereotypical teen drama props ( e.g drugs, guns and knives), this unconventional. By comparrison Adulthood has a lot more of these props and follows theses conventions.

Editing
 The editing is fast in both films but for different reasons. Our film has a quick pace due to the boxing, which is quite a fast paced sport, whereas Kidulthood has it pace because it is dramatic and the quick cuts heighten the drama.

Sound
 Our music is very theartricl whereas Kidulthood uses rapping. We choose theatrical as it means we are adapting for a wide audience, not just teenagers.  Kidulthood is purely a teen uraban drama therefore they used their music to appeal to their audience.

Summary

 

We challenged conventions by

• Not using Establising shots
• Focusing on the life of a young boxer as opposed to a young teenager who boxes
•  Not using stereoypical props for an urban teen drama
• Minimalising the amount of drama.
• No sound for production or distribution idents
• Use of theatrical music as opposed to Hip-hop rap etc.

We stuck to conventions by

• Conventional teen film title sequence
• Conventional urban backdrops
• Conventional dramas/conflicts

To summarise, our film is more of a british urban drama  because it expands out to a wider audience due to the challenging of conventions.