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

The genre we chose for our film opening was a hybrid teen rom-com. We chose to play on teen relationships throughout school and college as we thought this would be an interesting storyline to come up with and work with and also we thought that this type of film would easily attract our target audience. We also researched other films that linked into our chosen genre, for example Mean Girls and She's The Man. We think that using these films as examples would be helpful as they are similar genres and are directed to the same target audience. Also, the different scenes and film clip's of these films always link back to our original idea's for our own film opening. We also tried to attract our audience by the mise en scene, sound and the editing. We used typical props that linked to the school/college idea's for example, a rucksack and Steph's geek glasses. We thought this would represent our storyline well and link back again to our audience and school/college life. The sound we used is relatively quiet throughout but is also quite upbeat and contempoary which we thought would work as we are targetting a younger audiencce who would be more interested in a more modern type film. Also, again keeping our audience in mind, when editing we eventually decided to cut alot of footage out as we thought that different scenes were taking up too much time overall and they were too long. We decided to delete parts as we didn't want to bore our audience and we wanted to keep them interested throughout the whole film opening.