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

1. How my media product uses, develops
and challenges the forms and
conventions of real media products.
Owen Robson

2. How my product uses the forms and
conventions of real media products.
• My product draws upon the stereotype of the moody brooding
teenager that always seems depressed, e.g. wears a hoody, walks
with a slouch, sloppy movements etc.
• My product also brings a darker view of what school life is like and
how peer pressure can affect someone in ways you don’t realise and
when and where peer pressure can affect you, that being, anywhere
and anytime in a manner similar to indoctrination.

3. How my product challenges and conforms to
forms and conventions to real media products.
• Challenges: My media product does
not directly challenge any form or
convention to date, this is because I
wish to highlight certain problems
that the stereotypical, moody
teenager faces every day for the
better part of a decade of their lives
and perhaps beyond. The certain
problem I am trying to highlight is the
crushing weight of peer pressure that
they must face every day.
• Conforms: My product conforms to
current forms and conventions as I
portray the character as a typical
broody teenager who wears a hoody
and walks with a slouch. The slouching
represents the weight of the peer
pressure that they must face on a
daily basis and the things that they
must do to appear normal. The hoody
is their way of blocking out as much of
the weight of peer pressure as they
can, making it a placebo of sorts to
the teenager.