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

2. WRITTEN CODES
In our film we used film titles because
the use of titles is an expectation of the
brief and because film titles are an
expectation of any film. The titles were
fairly simple, and we could have been
more creative, however I am happy
with the titles created and feel they are
to a satisfactory standard.

3. AUDIO CODES
The music we used I feel added drama and
built suspense in the film which is often the
case in other films. However I feel a very new
genre of music ‘trap’ which had never been
used in a film like ours. This made our film
seem more modern and gave it an urban
edge.
Also the language of our characters was
slang which made the characters seem more
believable and relatable too.

4. SYMBOLIC CODES
As all films do we use symbolic
codes to present our film as being
of a particular genre. We also used
codes as a narrative device… for
example we had David who was
presented as a middle class family
man and Tank as a working class
hoodlum always in trouble.

5. TECHNICAL CODES
The camera angles what were use
were industry standard, and the
camera movement was similar to
films of the same genre of ours
(Action/Drama)
The edit was fairly slow paced
which created and drama, a
technique used in many films.