The film challenges fantasy genre conventions by having a lower budget and being more ambiguous about the fantasy elements. It uses subtle cues like the unfamiliar setting, strange but not unfamiliar costumes, and uncertain fantasy animals to blur reality and fiction rather than using explicit fantasy tropes. It also challenges conventions by having a female lead, where typically men are given lead roles in fantasy. The teaser trailer follows conventions like using music to set the tone, but the magazine breaks conventions with its more minimal cover design while still using a conventional magazine template.

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

2. My film breaks develops convention of the fantasy genre that usually uses
extravagant costumes or technology and has big budgets by making my film
simpler, by being less explicitly fantasy it challenges the viewer to question the
nature of the fantasy genre as it is difficult to define. I used mise-en-scene to subtly
convey the fantasy genre through setting[screenshot] props[screenshot animals]
and costume[screenshot] (caption all the images).
I deliberately presented the genre my film ambiguously because the fantasy genre
can be interpreted in different ways and so I wanted the audience to question their
notion of fantasy and where it starts and ends.
[SCREENSHOT]

3. For me the setting is fantastical because it is so unfamiliar, it is
open to interpretation, it could be anywhere and anytime.
[SCREENSHOT]

4. The animals I used as props are given a fantasy element because they
seem out of place, it is meant to be left to the viewer’s interpretation
as to whether are real or not and this uncertainty, the blurring of
reality and fiction is something I consider to be fantasy, it is in the
same way that the existence of the wild things in Where The Wild
Things Are is meant to be uncertain.
[SCREENSHOT]

5. The costume I chose was meant to look strange but
not unfamiliar so it could be interpreted as either an
unreal costume or merely a deranged person’s clothes
which is meant to signify the same ambiguity
throughout the film.
[SCREENSHOT]

6. My use of a female lead challenges convention
as typically men are give lead roles
[insert image]

7. My teaser trailer follows the convention of
using music to help set the tone of the trailer
[insert sound clip and example]

8. My trailer follows the convention of using custom text that links with
the film, in my case it is green to demonstrate the theme of nature
[SCREENSHOT]

9. My magazine breaks mainstream convention by presenting the
cover neatly with obtrusive cover lines dotted around the page
[insert cover]
My magazine is using a conventional template of
Sight&Sound magazine as the basis of my product