In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (I.e. teaser trailers, posters, magazines)

1. Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product
use, develop and challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
(I.e. teaser trailers, posters, magazines)

2. Below are images of male assassin's in most action movies, I shall be
explaining how I, individually, as well as in a group, challenged the
forms and conventions of real life media products in my product.
This Means War
Action/Comedy/Romance
Taken
Action/Thriller/Romance

3. Continued.
Savages
Action/Romance
James Bond, 007
Action

4. • The typical, expected
conventions of an action
movie is the male
character is usually the
character who
experiences the most
action and battles, and
the female character
watches from a distance.
For example, in The
Avengers Assemble, all
the Marvel characters are
males, then the Black
Widow, keeps an eye on
everything from the
office, therefore she
doesn’t experience the
action, fights and gun
battles in full force.

5. Continued.
• On the other hand, I encouraged my group to included a
female as the main character, as this would be challenging the
typical conventions, as well as developing it.
• This also helps represent what era this movie is filmed in. By
not conforming to the ideologies of male dominance as
represented by similar movies that I have come across of a
similar storyline/genre, for example, Snatch, 21 Jump Street
and The Avengers Assemble, this helps us to challenge the
typical conventions expected in an action movie.
• Not only does this challenge and develop the conventions of a
real media product, it also helps us attract a range of female
audience members.