The document summarizes how the media product challenges conventions of real media. It discusses how the film is a psychological drama, using Ronald Barthes' Enigma Code theory to convey emotions through symbolic colors. The structure is nonlinear, not following chronological order to create confusion and illustrate the theme of different dimensions of life. It challenges conventions like time and Todorov's Equilibrium theory by mixing past and present tense to stand out from common conventions and give audiences something different.

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

3. Form The genre drama is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes, such as, alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption. These are the dramatic themes that put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomenon. Dramatic films include a very large spectrum of film genres. Because of the large number of drama films these genres have been classified into sub-genres, for example, Crime drama and Legal drama, Historical drama, Romance, Comedy-drama, Melodrama, Tragedy, Docudrama

4. Form Our group decided to do something more challenging and complex to make our media product more stand out. We agreed, as a group, to adopt something completely different to whatever is already out the in the film industry. That's when we decided to develop a film that was in the drama category, which turned out to be a psychological drama.

5. Form Our film is based on Ronald Barthes theory, The Enigma Code. This is because we use a lot of code to convey our message across, for example, we used colours to express the emotions our main character was feeling and the atmosphere at the time. To show these colours we used coloured clothing to display the emotion, such as, a red top for anger or an orange scarf to capture the warm feeling. This is similar to the ‘symbolic code’, which is one of the four sub-theories within the Enigma code theory. This theory worked well with our film as our aim was to create suspense, build up tension and confuse our target audience, which this theory has delivered quite effectively.

6. Form The structure that our film takes place is an unusual structure. Our film does not go in chronological order, instead it is structure in a way that creates confusion and perplexity, for our target audience, which we have aimed for and gained. We chose this for because it best displayed and illustrate the moral message of the story that we had in mind, and I believe we have achieved the message through this form, which is ‘Life is full of different dimensions’.

7. Conventions One of our main conventions that we tackled was time. We experimented with this element, which is used throughout our film, to make sure that our end product does not become to confusing for our audience. The reason for using the element ‘time’ is to keep the audience engaged to the story and to make them think about what is going on and wanting to figure out what is going to happen next.

8. Conventions We also challenged and went against Todorov’s theory, ‘Equilibrium’. Our film does not go in chronological order as it uses the past and present tense to illustrate what is happening in the story. Me and my group decided to do this because we thought it is a theory that is not shown as commonly as the others, for example, Todorov’s theory, which is used majority of the time in the industry, and we wanted our film to stand out and rise above all the common conventions in the filming industry. We also wanted to give our audience something different, that they have never seen before which has a huge impact on them.