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

The aspects of pride and bondage in our production enhances the romance/drama genre's of the film. It demonstrates originality against films we took inspiration from such as 'Spider Man 2' and 'Hancock'. The reason why we think this, is because firstly the aspect of 'yacob' taking his best friends girlfriend is a common motive in both of the 'hollywood' blockbusters mentioned above, but our film has a variety ofshots and editing strategies which protract the production in a different light ; for example the 'Malcolm x' face pout which connotes grief and injustice upon 'yacob' and also the flash back upon which 'yacob' reflects on the few times he met up with his best friends girlfriend.This editing technique demonstrated poise and originality.We were inspired by the flashback used in 'Hancock' therefore applied this edit to our film. This married very well with the shots we had but at times required some more takes to polish the film of.

The scene to your right shows 'Hancock' conversing with his friends wife, whom he later on finds out to be in matrimony to. At that point in the film he has a flash back to seclude his previous life and to recollect his past and what had went wrong for him.

The scene to your left is when 'yacob' begins to recollect on hispast and the valued times he spent with his comrades girlfriend.

Another film we took the essance of having a flash back from was 'The Green MIle'. during the film Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) reflects on his past as the main prison officer of "E" block were towering figure of John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan).

In terms of sound, we apply a voice over onto our main film as an idle source of narration. furthermore the 1st person aspect of the narration connotes 'yacob's thoughts and feelings and this would create empathy from the audience as they witness and hear how 'yacob' constructs himself through the situation at hand.

The mise en scene is very simple in our media product but effective. the choice costumes demonstrates the thought we gave to each character, in a way that the clothing they wore would paint a picture of the type of lifestyle they led. fro example ; 'Mai' wore predominantly black attire, to instigate his roguish persona, whilst 'Yacob' wore a range of lighter colours during the media production to demonstrate his array of innocence.