The document discusses how the media product of a short film, film review page, and poster for a school project both used and challenged conventions of real media. It used conventions by having a clear recurring message like other short films, and by designing the ancillary materials of a review page and poster to clearly relate to the film. It challenged conventions by including some funny parts not typically seen in films about bullying, and by regularly replacing one character on a couch with progressively taller actors, which is uncommon for short films.

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

2. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
 For our A2 Level Media studies final project we decided
to create a short film. For the ancillary tasks we chose to
create a film review page and a poster for our film. Both
of the ancillary tasks and the main film needed to be
closely linked so that the audience could see that they
are all related to each other.
 I believe that all of our pieces go together very well. We
have used forms and conventions of real media reviews,
posters and short films. In some cases we have
challenged the conventions of films and media texts.

3. How we used conventions of real media
products
 Our film also has a clear message which is reoccurring
throughout the entire film. The message is that there will
always be someone bigger and better than you. While
researching other short films we have found that lots of
other shorts contain a similar message. For example “the
bulling effect” contains the message “you never know
what your bulling might lead to”. This is one of the
examples of our film using the conventions of real media
products (short films).

4. How we challenged conventions of real
media products
 Our short film has some funny parts in it which is
uncommon in short films that show bulling. This is one of
the ways that we chose to change/challenge the
conventions of real media products.
 The main focus in our short film are the two characters
that sitting on the small black leather sofa. These two
characters change one at a time throughout our film. The
shorter of the two is always replaced with a noticeably
taller person. This happens 3 times during our short film.
It is uncommon that the actors will change so regularly
during a 3-5 minute short film. We have chosen to
challenge this convention to put emphasis on our
message.