Question 2-How does your media product represent particular social groups (Hayden)

Question 1-In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (Hubert)

Examples of some of the conventions we’ve used can be seen in the film ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. During the first minutes of the film there is a news report, within the dystopian genre this is used to make it clear to the audience what disaster occurred before the time in which the film is set. Also during the first minutes of the film Mad Max is seen alone on a desolate landscape which is another convention of Dystopia. We have also decided to challenge the famous convention of an anti-hero; an anti-hero is a protagonist who does not show conventional resemblance to typical conventional heroic characters. This couldn’t be seen through the typical aspects of an anti-hero as the film opening wasn’t long enough for us to explore the idealistic features of the character, his courage and his morality, though it can be seen through other conventions we have used. One of the conventions which supports the convention of an anti-hero is that he is an isolated character that is alone throughout the opening and is also being chased by scavengers, this connotes that the character is too fixed on his own objective and too stubborn to let anybody help him, which is all true. We have also effectively followed conventions of our sub-genre: Thriller. We have considered Thriller conventions carefully whilst editing our production, our use of quick changes in camera angles were a great way of showing disruption to the audience. The setting itself is also conventional of a Thriller as confined spaces make the character seem isolated trapped within this area (which is what we were aiming for and succeeded in our aims through our set of an abandoned toilet).

Production (Draft)