The document discusses how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real social realist media. It uses conventions such as credits and elliptical editing in its opening sequence. It develops conventions by revealing some of the main character's drug addiction to add mystery. It challenges conventions by using an experienced actor rather than inexperienced ones, and by having an Asian middle-class main character rather than the typical white working-class subjects, questioning stereotypes.

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

2. In what ways does your media productIn what ways does your media product
useuse
forms and conventions of real mediaforms and conventions of real media
products?products?

3. Forms
At the beginning of a social text film there are a series of credits which include the
company ident, cast, producers and directors.
We incorporate these conventions into out opening sequence by adding a series of
production credits which appear after a shot series of rolling a joint.These credits
are fixed onto a black background using a white Helvetica typeface font. The form of
our opening sequence is quite similar to that of the existing social realist film
'soft'.
In some social realist texts, elliptical editing is used this allows the same event to
be a shorter length to move it along faster and to keep audiences engaged. A good
example of this is
In our film's opening sequence, during the garden scene, we used elliptical editing to
shorten the length of Mary-Jane smoking. This also added to the effect that Mary-Jane
was getting high.

4. Conventions
Natural Lighting is mainly used in Social Realist as it
makes the film setting more naturalistic and close to
reality.
In the garden scene, we used an artificial outdoor light as
it was a night scene. We didn’t make it too bright as we
wanted to use the generic conventions of naturalistic light.

5. In what ways does your media
product
developforms and conventions of real
media products?
forms and conventions of real
media products?
forms and conventions of real
media products?

6. Form
Social Realist Films start revealing everything to the
audience from the beginning, therefore the sense of
mystery is removed.
We developed this form by showing the audience a
snippet of her drug addiction we did not show
everything because we wanted to keep the film quite
mysterious but also reveal a bit of her problem to keep
to the form of existing products. We also developed the
form by only showing the bottom half of her step mother
which would make the audience question what she looks
like adding to the sense of mystery

7. In what ways does your media
product
Challengeforms and conventions of real
media products?
forms and conventions of real
media products?
forms and conventions of real
media products?

8. Forms
The majority of Social Realist texts tend to use
inexperienced actors to achieve a realistic product
For example, actress Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank was
spotted at Tilbury station whilst arguing with her
boyfriend.
However, in our film, the actor has had a background in
Acting which challenges this convention.

9. In Social Realist Films, they often surround the story around
White, working class people as they are stereotypically the
ones who are often sees in life situations.
The actor in our film is Asian and from a middle classed
family this will not only challenge the conventions of social
realist texts but also stereotypes people have about Asian
girls who stereotypically tend to be intelligent and well-
behaved.This allows the audience to question; 'Why has this
not been done before?' and; to draw their own conclusions 'Why
she ended up rebelling?'
ConventionsConventions

10. In Social Realist Films, they often surround the story around
White, working class people as they are stereotypically the
ones who are often sees in life situations.
The actor in our film is Asian and from a middle classed
family this will not only challenge the conventions of social
realist texts but also stereotypes people have about Asian
girls who stereotypically tend to be intelligent and well-
behaved.This allows the audience to question; 'Why has this
not been done before?' and; to draw their own conclusions 'Why
she ended up rebelling?'
ConventionsConventions