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1. How does your media project:

Use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I think our media project looks much more professional since we have added the studio logo and soundtrack. It creates a much more expert feel about the overall movie. We added in our own design of music and title credits, we also studied real movies to see how they set out there titles and the font, colour they used for there examples.  The titles really gave our movie a much more expertise experience. If the movie did not have titles, it would be hard to notice if it was a movie rather than just a clip.

The majority of media products are created in established and repeated ways. Film products are governed by certain predictable narrative features, what was very important is the dress and props in a film.

In ours, one of the actors is clearly riding a horse and we were considering not making the actor wear a hat because teenagers never really seem that concerned about safety. But for health and safety reasons it was necessary. The other actor “Alex”, however is wearing a much more casual dress sense which hopefully the audience will see as fitting in with their age range. 

Represent particular social groups?

It represents teenagers are being very vulnerable and weak, which is generally the stereotype from most films.

The interview at the beginning our film is a strong male lead, which shows males as being either stronger or more dominant. As he is more dominant and older, it makes the teenagers look more like children and they still need taking care off.

The social group it is generally based around youth, however, it is generally a negative connotation of teenagers being unintelligent and not really thinking about the consequences of danger – for example, going looking for a missing friends by themselves. 

However, the main characters being so young and vulnerable may restrict parents from wanting to watch in cause there child could end up in that situation.

Also, as it is to be rated at least a 15, the elderly may be put of it will include foul language and maybe gory scenes.