Evaluation

By Alex cox
 In what ways does my media product use, develop or challenge the forms and
conventions of real media products?

Uses: My media product uses the conventions of real media products well. Such as we
use three characters all with different personalities. This is similar to American pie. I.E we
had a tough guy character typified as the “jock” character in American pie. A stupid
dunce like character that often uses slapstick humor to get cheap laughs. Slapstick humor
is another convention of the comedy genre that we have used to our advantage. Finally
we used a posh sensible type character, this type of character is evident in most teen
movies including Ferris Bueller and American pie.

Additionally we used the conventions of comedy films through the use of costumes. We
used a tight black jacket on the tough guy to emphasize his power and authority amongst
the group. The stupid character dresses casually to show that he has few worries in his
life, and finally the posh character is dressed smartly in an obvious fashion to show his
status as the smarter more mature of the group.
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Furthermore we filmed all of our opening in bright lighting conditions. However we

had to use daylight. If we had a larger budget then we would have been able to
use bright lighting settings all of the time, yet we had to make do with what we
had.

Finally we used the convention of establishing the relationship between the

three characters through the use of a longshot and them all meeting up. This is a
common way of showing the relationship between the three characters in
several teen movies including American pie where they meet outside the shop.