This document summarizes how a student's media project used and challenged conventions of hood crime films. It notes the project was set in London like similar films and shows. Conventions it followed included establishing shots, drugs, police, gangs and violence. However, it challenged conventions by including a relationship, which rarely happens in the genre, and addressing the binary opposition of rich and poor.

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

2. In terms of use:
Having done a lot of research into
hood crime films and TV shows like;
Kidulthood, Adulthood, Ill Manors,
Shank, Harry Brown, Attack the Block
and Top Boy I noticed many patterns
of similarity. All trailers begin with an
establishing shot to establish the
location of the film. All of the trailers
are set in London as this is an inner
city urban environment where crime
occurs. When creating this trailer my
partner and I were based in London as
this is where we live and we thought a
suitable location to film in would be in
West London on a huge housing
estate, conventional of a hood crime
genre.

3. • Drugs
• Police
• Smoking
• Housing estates
• Gangs
• Violence
• Weapons
• Death
• Money
• Stereotypes – good or bad
• Costumes – Baggy jeans, trainers, hoodies – stereotypical of
what a gangster would wear.
Codes & Conventions of a hood crime
film:

12. In terms of challenging:
• Binary Opposition of Rich & Poor
• Relationship – doesn’t usually happen in hood
crime film genre.