Evaluation Q.1

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

Our media product develop forms and conventions of real media products. We used most of the typical conventions throughout our media product, to make it more understandable to the target audience. We explored convention in different ways; conventions that we explored around with in our products is the setting, time period, character(s) (protagonist), narrative and enigma.  

We used two locations for showing the present and the flashback to give a full picture to the audience of what is going around with the main character’s life and make it realistic. To locate the present setting, we used a well-known city ‘London’ for the reason that, we needed a publicity in our media product to drive the narrative to the story. Hence that homeless or run-away (runners) more likely to travel around in eminent and urban places such as ‘London’. The flash back would not be recognized to the audience, as we used a known couples (grandparents) house related to one of our team member, to convey the relation and companionship in the character’s history life. The wide shot of the ‘bank’s’ and ‘the bridge’ aware the audience immediately about where about the location is. Besides the setting conveying the location, but also it is instantly well known through the diegetic sound of the public. Another conventional that was used shrewdly is exposing the time period about twice in the media product; firstly when the hand writing convey right at the beginning and especially the second time exposed when the character writes in her diary records. The time period is also immediately exposed to the audience by the use of costumes and props (now-a-days outfits).

Enigma is build tension, making the audience wanting to know and understand what is happening.  We used enigma mostly throughout the product, as it makes the audience to question themselves about what is happening in our product. In the product enigma is used strongly at the end when we see only a hand reaching to the character to offer her help. This means, that the character is not revealed completely and the identity is so little that makes it more mysterious.