This document discusses how a media product uses and develops conventions from real media products in different genres. It summarizes how a movie poster was designed with conventions like including the main actors at the top and production details at the bottom. The magazine cover was modeled after Empire magazines to look professional with genre-appropriate strap lines and high quality images. The trailer was inspired by films like The A-Team and Limitless for shot types and editing styles but did not directly copy them. It maintained conventions for the genre like using an intense soundtrack. Dark clothing for actors was used to fit the Action/Thriller genre conventions.

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

2. Poster
• For inspiration we look multiple range of posters in our genre such as ‘The
Dark Knight’ and ‘The Equalizer’.
• At the top of the movie poster you can see that we've add the main actors
of the film as this is one of the main conventions of a film poster. By laying it
out like this it has made the poster more professional also the layout of the
production team and various production teams which is at the bottom the
of the poster.
• Another way we made it similar to the professional posters was by using
capital and bold letters to give the poster a more professional look.
• For the poster we kept the poster colour black, blue and red the reason for
this was it was the colour's of the poker chips.

3. Magazine
• When it came to creating our magazine front cover we used Empire’s The A
Team and Inception edition to base our work off. The reason we used the
codes and conventions of this film magazines was so we could produce a
professional magazine front cover. The reason why we used this magazine
editions was that it linked into our genre which was Action/Crime/Thriller.

4. Magazine conventions
• Our magazine front cover we produced does not challenge the
conventions of the look of a professional magazine for things such as
the strap lines and composition and quality of the image which looks
like it was done in a studio with a professional photographer. But
what challenges the convention is the over exposed red/orange
colour which done in post production is not what you typically see in
a professional magazine.

5. Influences on our Trailer
• For inspiration for our trailer I used ‘The A Team', 'Limitless”,
‘The revolver’ and ‘The Equalizer’. The reason we used these
trailers was that they where in the same genre as our trailer so
it would inspire us to get ideas that we we could develop into
our own trailer.

6. Trailer Conventions
• Our trailer we produced has not challenged the conventions of a
Crime/Action/Thriller. We used ‘The A Team’ and limitless for inspiration but
not to the extent to copy it. But what we used the trailers for where to get
shot types from the trailers and also editing styles.

7. Other Conventions In Our Trailer
• Other conversations in our trailer we things such as the
soundtrack which where similar to what you would see in a
professional trailer this was said by the focus group when we
showed them our trailer.
• Also we made sure to tell the actor to ware dark clothes in the
trailer as it would fit in it the a Action/Thriller conventions.