Evaluation Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

A Convention is a type of theme which all teen movies or specific genre movies tend to have. An example of this is that, we went with the idea of a boys chasing his dreams, so with the  location such as the Studio helps show this. Also, with the urban estate and house settings it helps to represent the idea of the target audience we set it towards.

When looking at camerawork, editing, mise-en-scene and sound, these showed the conventions of a teen film and particularly to our sub-genre of The Coming of Age. 

For example:

Camerawork:

Different type of camera shots was vitally important when filming the main protagonist, Darnell,  in our film opening. We used shots like close ups, POV, tracking shots, mid-shots, high angle shots to show the emotion and the attitudes of the character. These shots are usually used in teen films to reveal the same sorts of emotion on the character.

Editing:

The use of continuity editing, giving the main protagonist the most camera time means that by giving him all the screen time we follow he's experience and what he's going through, as we get a understanding of what the Coming of Age really is. 

Mise-En-Scene:

We used certain props to show the convention such as:

Headphones

Job application sheets

Hoodies 

Bandanna 

Sound:

Sounds such as Hip Hop and Rap fits in with the urban city landscape we were in, as the audience are familiarise with the different sounds. It also fits in with the theme of The Coming of Age, particularly with ours as his dreams is to be a rapper.

Comparison between our film and a real film

Because are film is towards a British audience we had to adapt and make some changes that would suite that particular group of people. On the other hand, I believe we followed the conventions through the use of Mise-En-Scene, Sound, Editing and Cinematography.