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Question 1:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have decided to do a directors commentary to answer this question. This means that I will show parts of my main production while I talk about it. I think that it is the most effective method as I will be able to show where i use the conventions and explain why we used it and why we used it in that specific area, also by using this format I will be able to pause it and talk in more detail about the part the scene that I needed to. It is effective as it would be hard to explain without watching the clips. 

Unfortunately I have unable been unable to add a directors commentary voice-over to these clip. However, I had add a paragraph to the end of each clip explain what I would have said. 

As we can see in this clip out main character is female. Using a female actor to play a vulnerable character is very stereotypical. By using a female character we already know that something dangerous or troubling will happen to her. Films have a tendency to use female to play the vulnerable character because males are stereotyped as being dominate and powerful.  

Another way that we developed conventions for the thriller genre is by using a forest. This follows conventions as they feel secluded and isolated. Which is why they are so popular to use when there is going to be a crime. This suggest that the something bad will happen to the character. Which makes audience automatically feel fear for the character when she enters the forest. 

We used the female role in this short film not only to help develop convention but to challenge them. In out production we use a female to play the dominate villain character. This breaks the use of normal conventions that would use a male to play the part of the villain. we used a female character in this role as we wanted to give the audience something unexpected.