2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
• My genre is gangster and the conventions or the norms in Gangster movies is
usually involves a lot of violence and the props are usually guns or knifes and in my
opening I used a gun as a prop.
• My opening is also like many other gangster movies where its good versus evil and
one character trying to explain himself.
3. Question one Continued…
• I analysed the opening of RockNRolla, Gangster NO.1 and Lawless which really
helped me with my opening because I didn’t want my opening to be like any of
them. Lawless takes 7 minutes to get to the title and the opening for the first 3
minutes shows the scenery then it gets into action I wanted to get straight into the
action. RockNRolla is mainly animated and there isn’t any actual acting going on.
• In Gangster NO.1 there isn’t many acting as well but you can hear dialogue and
they cut away to a black background to show credits.
• I used universals opening in the my opening sequence this is because they are one
of the movie production companies I analysed that would produce gangster
movies.
4. How does your media product represents particular social
groups?
• My characters was represented as four teenagers who are involved in gangs. It’s a
negative representation but it’s the social norm as how teenagers are represented
in the media as gang members. This is a stereotype created by media and shows
teenagers as thugs that are always up to trouble and I try and represent this in my
opening as the main character is someone who is misunderstood and for that
reason he is in trouble.
5. • I tried to create the next Jason Statham as my character is like him from the
Mechaninc because he is betrayed by the people he works for because they create
a massive lie to be the reality and my character is a misunderstood person trying
to get back at the people which got him to snitch.
• The main character was dressed with a black hoody and jeans which is normal for
a teenager and the black hoody is typical to the way normal gangsters get dressed.
6. What kind of institutions might produce your media product and
why?
• Universal would produce my media product this is because they are a really
diverse group that produces all sorts of movies. Universal distribute all sorts of
movies such as Ride Along a comedy, 47 Ronin an action move and 2 guns which is
a gangster movie. This shows that they would distribute my movie because they
produce all sorts of movies.
• I used universals opening as I lost my logo picture I think it got deleted by accident
this is why I had to use universal.
7. Who would the audience for your media product be?
• My movie would be an age rating 15+ as it has a bit of violence and some strong
language.
The people who answered my survey showed that it was mainly male but about 35%
would still be females.
From my audience research I found out that the actors and the storyline make a movie
attractive.
15
•strong violence
•frequent strong language (eg 'f***').
•portrayals of sexual activity
•strong verbal references to sex
•sexual nudity
•brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
•discriminatory language or behaviour
•drug taking
8. The audience for my media product could be anyone over 15 years old.
