1.In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media

Within our genre we studied, analysed and tried to pick out the main conventions of this specific genre (which was action/adventure). Specifically we focused on three main films studying any common trends of conventions they each shared. We studied Mission Impossible, Watchmen and Next. We noticed that the main conventions they shared was that they used music that was quite contrasting to the actual genre for their openings for example watchmen being an action movie you’d expect a fast paced music however it uses a slow romantic and calming song although it is a fight scene which leads to the death of one of the characters. Each and everyone of these movies studied also included some sort of fast paced action seen in their openings which varied from fight scenes to chase scenes which was a big convention used within their openings. And in addition they also used cross cutting to start the story at various stages and bring them together for one opening. In watchmen the story is a lot similar to ours in the sense that a murder sparks of this hunt for who is hunting down these retired superheroes and ours who is hunting down these retired agents. We chose this storyline because we found it very interesting and a storyline that we could see being a full movie. We also had the use of cross cutting to bring the two characters together the same way Next did in their chase scene and in addition we also had our story spark off with 3 murders (alike to Watchmen but only doesn’t have just one murder). We tried in most areas of our main task to stick to conventions however we did not want it to be to alike to our researched genre so we decided that we would choose specifically what conventions we used. One convention we knew we had no choice but to keep would have to be the action and fast paced scene which we decided would be a fight scene. We decided we had to do this as we knew that our audience would want an opening scene to be something that could keep them “glued to their seats”. As we did not want our main task to be alike to other movies of action genres we decided that it would be good to add some sort of “twist” in order to deviate from other movies of our researched genre. We decided that it would be good if we had a woman as an assassin and they “bad guys” to be woman as it is not something that is usually seen in movies and it also contradicts views on what woman are seen as.