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

We knew that our film was going to be a teen comedy so we did some research on that genre. We realised that in quite a lot of films from that genre use a voice over to acompany the images seen on screen. It can help to convay the personality of the character and portray a certain image to the audience quickly and usualyy they will have an opinion on that character as soon as he speaks. Mean Girls for example is a film that uses that technique. We thought that by using a voice over it would show people what our character thinks of himself and how that differs from what happens in real life. But once that had been done and added to the film we realised that the voice over sounded disjointed. Another teen comedy convention we have used is the school setting. Lots of effective teen comedies have been set in a high school, american pie for example. We thought by setting it in a school it would appeal to people who have previously enjoyed american pie etc. An editing technique usually used in teen comedy films is fast cuts. We have encorperated many fast cuts in our piece to create a frantic, 'lots going on' atmosphere for comedic effect.