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

Our film challenges usual conventions of media production when it comes to classic genre narratives, our film doesn’t have a set genre as such, instead we like to think of our film as a combination of three classic favored genres; the romantic comedy, social realism and drama.
Our film is fairly conventional in its camera work we use a variety of different shots to display facial expression, costume and locations. We used mise en scene to display different sorts of stereotypes in our film.

Our film is like St Trinians in the way that it uses stereotypes to convey teenage girls its also like our film as these stereotypes are not support to coincide with each other as friends our film does this to contrast with the stereotypes making it comical just like St Trinians. Our film uses elliptical editing in our opening sequence it jumps from when they wake up to when they are getting ready and their journey to college, this is done as to not bore the audience. We found this editing technique was also used in popular teen programme skins in their opening sequence the same sort of concept is developed. Our film break usual editing convetions when we did our still image flashback scene we are yet to find a film of similar genre that has used this technique making our film original.

In this picture you can see that like in this film like our film they have used different stereotypes to show different social groups.














We looked at images from Google of different stereotypes this one being a ‘Gogh’ we tried to adapt the look into our own film by dark colours for clothes, make up and hair.












We looked at other stereotypes such as ‘Chav’ and tried to adapt this look in our film in our own adaptation .
















We tried to create an image of a young teenage girl, someone that everyone could relate to; we did this by showing modern clothes and make up









In the opening sequence of our film , we looked at music we could use for no diagetic purposes, to connote the personality of the characters and the genre of film, we had a number of current hits which we wanted to use which would fit with our genre and film brilliantly. However due to copyright issue we had to use an unsigned band, the song fitted the opening sequence really well, but we struggled with the ending so by tweaking the song we made the perfect ending to our film. Metromax; the band name; we chose a track called "Take It On The Chin". We felt that this song not only sounds good and seemed to match up to the pace of the film with certain shots perfectly matching to beat and pace of the shots taken. the rote as, we wanted to create the feel of a real life first two mintue opening to a fun, teenage film.To do this we needed intriguing, fast pace shots with a backing track to compliment this.Metromax, were also a good band to use as they are also from Manchester and have an upbeat, edgy sound to their tracks. This created a good atmosphere for the opening sequence to denote urban, Mancunian youth.