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

2.  For our film opening my group has chosen to focus on challenging the
stereotype’s presented in urban drama. Our film opening is presented in a
typical urban environment and time scale which further complements the
actions done in the opening, however towards the end we subverted the
stereotype of youths being negative, involved in gangs and overall not
pleasant people.
This is the typical view that people have of
urban youths. Mostly associated with gangs,
and typically all come from working class black
or white backgrounds

3.  We wanted to show that we subverted the stereotype in order to show
something different. As shown on most urban drama movie in recent times
they mostly all conform to the stereotype and show the negatives rather
then the positives.
This is along the lines of what we wanted to show when
we subverted the stereotype of urban youths. Our
character showed that although you come from an
urban background it is possible to make something of
yourself . Audiences are accustomed to seeing the
typical gang setting and someone getting killed we
wanted the audience to see that there can be another
side to urban drama movies. A much positive

4. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
 For our film opening we have chosen to represent the youths in urban
dramas. We wanted to show the typical attitudes and representations of
young adults in this was the main focus around our opening as it influenced
the kind of setting and time we chose to film.
This is the typical location of our film
opening.

5.  these choices we made helped bring out the negative representation that
we wanted to show. However we also showed the other side to urban
youths, we showed the side of youths which were in good jobs and working
instead of participating in gang activity. This allowed us to give both
portrayals and contrast between.