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

Our film was a Neo Noir Style thriller, this means that the film was in black and white. This is a typical convention of the Neo Noir sub genre. I took inspiration from films like Sin City for this. Other codes and conventions of Neo Noir thrillers are voice overs and my film has a voice over in as well. The colours that I used in my film was black, white and red. These are typical colours used in a Neo Noir film because the films themselves are in black and white and the key colour that is usually picked out is red because it can sybolise love and hope but it can death and destruction. 

As seen in this screenshot. The film is in black and white and the text is in black with red accents on the first letter of each word. 

Normally the protagonist and antagonist are male in thrillers but in my film the protagonist is female. This breaks the normal conventions for a thriller film. I decided to do this to make my film unique and this means i could use this point to sell my film on. The antagonist in my film is male this is more standard for thrillers. The antagonist is also a corrupt businessman and this is stereotypical because the businessman is corrupt and has a lot of money to spend on what he wants to this can be bad because they are in a position of power and can lead to bad consequences. All of the themes in my film are common because in my film the colour schemes that I used are commonly used in Neo Noir and Film Noir films.

This was taken from another Neo Noir film and this is similar to my film with the way that bthe colour schemes are. This shows that my film is develops the conventions of real media products because my film has the typical features for a Neo Noir film. Where as my media product challenges the conventions of a typical film because the protagonist is female and in most other films the protagonist is usually male. the female character in the Neo Noir genre is normally the femme fetal and this means that she is the cause of the protagonist being captured by the antagonist and this is not the case in my media product.

I wanted to make some features in my film challenge the conventions because it means that it is a a semi-unique idea and this will be the selling point for my media product.