The document discusses how a media product used conventions from real media in its poster and magazine covers. For the poster, it featured characters in the center like film posters to show a focus on character development. It also used a plural title like coming-of-age films to suggest plots and belonging. Background elements like locations and gradients were included to draw attention to the characters. A subtle flower crown motif was used to intrigue viewers about a character and theme. For the magazine covers, Little White Lies was used as inspiration.

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

2. HOW WE USED CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS
THE POSTER
We used the convention we had seen in
many coming of age film posters, the
characters being in the centre of the
frame or the main focus of the poster.
This is to show that the film concentrates
more on the development of the
characters than the development of the
narrative.
The use of the plural words in the film
title’s, “club”, “children” and “kings”
gives a sense of belonging which is
conventional of coming of age films and
it also suggested possible narrative plots
to the audience. We used this idea in
our film title by making it “birds” and
“bees” instead of “bird” and bee”.
When we did our product research, we
noticed most of the posters had a
background including either a location or
a pale/gradient of colours, we used both
of these ideas by making the sky
gradient into the location shot.
Again, this convention brings more
attention to the characters in the
foreground of the poster.
We used the motif of the flower crown in a subtle way
within our poster to intrigue the audience as to why it
is there and also suggest the meeting of another
important character within the film. It also suggested
narrative theme, and this was also seen in Electrik
Children as there is a music tape included in the film
title.

3. HOW WE USED CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS
MAGAZINE COVERS
We looked at Little White Lies as
inspiration for our magazine covers