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


Our media product uses conventions of a romance by showing a race against time to show emotions of love, and we chose to create a character that is representative of the genre in a way that the character embodies things that are associated with love, for example art, as when asked what characteristics the main character should have, participants of our questionnaire suggested ‘creative’ ‘quirky’ ‘carefree’ and ‘shy’. We also chose to use a female lead character, as our questionnaire results said that 70% of participants preferred a female main character. However in a way our main female character challenged conventions of the romance genre in a way that she was not stereotypically the ‘average’ woman. We wanted to challenge this convention in order to provide a different way for the audience to use the media for diversion and personal relationships.

Another way we challenged a convention of the romance genre is that out film location is at the beach, when typical romance films are based in the city. We chose to use the beach, particularly Brighton Pier for it being an iconic place in England, therefore many people will be able to use our product for a realistic type of diversion in terms of location.