The document discusses how the media product breaks and develops conventions of the fantasy genre. Specifically, it has a simpler, less explicitly fantasy style that challenges viewers. Mise-en-scene conveys the fantasy element through an unfamiliar setting left open to interpretation, and props and costumes that could be real or not. The film also challenges conventions by having a female lead where males are typically used. The teaser trailer and marketing materials follow conventions like using music to set tone, credits, and a dedicated website.

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

2. My film breaks and 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
convey the fantasy genre through setting, props and costume.

3. The setting is fantastical because it is so unfamiliar,
it is open to interpretation, it could be anywhere and
any time. I feel it is similar in this sense to Where
The Wild Things Are

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

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

6. My use of a female lead
challenges convention
as typically males are
given lead roles

7. My teaser trailer follows the
convention of using music
to help set the tone of the
trailer

8. Edward Scissorhands

9. The Wild

10. My products follow the convention of using
custom text that links with the film, in my case
it is green to demonstrate the theme of nature

11. I created a production company logo and
featured it at the start of my trailer

12. I used captions in my teaser trailer in a similar
way to Where The Wild Things Are

13. I included credits at the end of my trailer

14. I included a website dedicated to my film in
the credits of my trailer and on my poster
as is the modern convention
trailer poster

15. I used framing
shots to draw focus
on to my character
and her attackers
poster

16. I implemented
the common
convention of
the rule of
thirds when
shooting

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

28. My magazine follows convention of
featuring various coverlines to
reveal what is inside

29. The magazine follows convention by featuring
one main image of a single character