in what ways have you used, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
1. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
USE, DEVELOP AND CHALLENGE FORMS
AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
2. The research we did before conducting our media product
helped us to understand more about our chosen genre. With the
help from this research we found out more about the elements
and conventions that go into making our chosen genre. We
researched the elements and editing techniques in Clueless as
this film is similar to ours. We tried to ensure that our film had
similar conventions as Clueless did.
4. In a typical romantic-
comedy the setting is usually
based at a party, in a school
or at a park.
How did we use this
convention?
Our media product uses this
convention when our actors
Zoey and Greg go out for a
date.
This is where we
chose to film our
opening scene
because it was
quite and can be a
romantic place to
have a picnic.
5. PANNING
We used panning to show the
surroundings of the scene.
Panning was used in a lot of
other films that were similar to
our genre therefore we wanted
to use it to show how we are
using the elements and
conventions of romantic
comedies.
6. Throughout our opening we tried to use a
vary of different camera angles and camera
shots to give our media product a more
professional touch. We used close-ups, mid-
shots, long-shots, extreme-close-ups,
panning and more.
7. In most romantic comedies
the music is upbeat to
show the happiness and
love between the
characters however when
the mood of the film
changes the music also
does. It becomes slower to
make the audience feel as
if they are part of the film.
In our media product we
used the music to set the
tone of our beginning
scene.
In both Clueless and
Easy A which are two
films that are a similar
genre to our media
product we decided to
research into them to
see how they present
their music.
9. We researched different films that fall into the same
genre as our media product and found that romantic
comedy titles are usually bold and bright therefore
we developed ours and used colours that will attract
our target audience whilst also making our titles
bold and bright so hopefully our audience remember
them.
11. We wanted our target
audience to be attracted to
our logo therefore we used
bright colours and bold font
such as pink and purple.
This helps to represent that
our target audience is
teenage girls.
