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

My media product uses several forms and conventions seen throughout the crime thriller genre used by large studios. Often considered 'no risk' films, these do little to develop or challenge forms and conventions and merely present a proven formula of film making. These are not heralded as award winners, and do not make the audience question anything, they do however ensure the company little risk and often an assured profit. We designed our film in this style as we believed it would be interesting to create a media product in this manner and to ensure we followed conventions set by the genre, we interviewed a small group of people, and asked them what they would expect from a crime thriller. We then incorporated what they had said into our opening sequence, many people had said that they expected a film in our genre to start with a lot of action, and to contain a chase sequence. It therefore seemed a logical choice to start the film with a chase scene. Another comment we received was that the protagonist would be close to death at some point during the story. To incorporate this I had the idea that the protagonist would be shot at the end of the opening sequence, and wake up in a hospital in the next scene. This would allow some character development to occur in the next scene, whilst the audience is introduced to the action straight away. This allows the audience to know the genre instantaneously even if they know nothing about the film prior to watching it. In this way it is similar to thrillers such as the 'James Bond' series of films, developed due to their low risk, and the high amount of action contained within them. This series of films are also age rated similarly to what we wanted to rate our product (12A).