This document discusses how the media product of a short film, poster, and review uses conventions of real media. For the film poster, conventions such as portrait layout, dark colors, and featuring the main character were used. The short film follows drama conventions such as focusing on one character and portraying their journey. The review mirrors styles from Empire magazine, using a 5-star rating system and including standard sections like plot, review, and verdict to stick to review conventions.

1. B Y A L E X , M A R K US S A N D R UT H
A2 MEDIA EVALUATION

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
• Film Poster
• Short Film
• Review
When given the brief, we knew we had to make a 5 minute short
film and 2 ancillary tasks. We decided that a review and poster
would best match the film, so we did research into existing poster
and review.

3. FILM POSTER
The Film poster that we created can be
linked to a conventional drama poster.
When we did our research into this genre
we found out that they all use a similar
colour scheme, they are sometimes
black and white, yellow, or even some
blue but mostly grayish colour. On the left
you can see our poster and examples of
some that are similar in the same genre.
There were also lots of posters that use
more than one picture in the poster. We
took these

4. FILM POSTER
Other drama poster conventions:
• Portrait layout
• Dark colours
• Main character or characters at the from of the page
• Fade on some images
Our drama film poster conventions:
• Main character is at the front
• Simple text not a overload of text.
• Plain background

5. FILM
The film that we made linked to the typical drama
genre. When we did the research we found out that
drama films always have 1 person that they focused
on and they always have something happen to
them. We kept a similar style in our film to keep the
conventions.

6. FILM
Typical drama conventions:
• They use real life situations with realistic characters.
• Portrays journeys of character development.
• Intense social interaction.
• Purpose of a dramatic story line is to move the
audience.
Our Films drama conventions
• It shows character development.
• It uses real life situations and realistic characters.
• Our film also makes the audience feel emotional
connection with the characters.

7. REVIEW
The first thing we did was we took
inspiration from empire magazine in
the style of the review. We also
used a 5 star rating system.
Ultimately we did not change
anything in the style of the review
because reviews have a set style
and if they don’t keep to it then
people will not understand it. We
included a plot, review, verdict and
release date sections matching
existing reviews. Sticking to
conventions of a review.