Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

This is my analysis of the structure and style of the piece in relation to genre conventions.

GENRE

This is our final piece with a commentary by us on how we utilised genre conventions

FORM AND NARRATIVE 

This diagram demonstrates the functions we wanted our sequence to perform and how we were inspired by key influence Heathers,  the pictures being stills in order taken from our opening and the opening of Heathers

 After the equilibrium and disruption of our opening we would have the recognition of the event marked with the trend of revenge sweeping across the whole school. Attempts to repair would be Eve preventing the murder and the new equilibrium would come about after the tearful reunion between the students followed by their arrest save Eve's. This is the black comedy aspect of the film - their redeeming character arcs are fruitless in the face of the law. These character arcs, specifically Eve's are one convention we followed of teen dramas. Characters in teen films like Veronica from Heathers, tend to come of age throughout the film, becoming more mature, considerate people, Eve being no exception. Another way we followed conventions of teen drama was with characters. We had the typical roles of:

• mysterious female protagonist like Veronica or Effy from Skins
• sleazy male (sometimes jock) like Tony from Skins
• outsider who wants to fit in like Oliver from Submarine 

 More detailed narrative techniques and use of theories can be found under Question 5.



Binary opposites - we included people reacting in different ways so the audience can choose whose side they are on

 STYLE

 

This video includes detailed annotations analysis on the specifics of the style of our film, looking and titles, mise-en-scene, editing, camerawork and sound.

We were particularly influenced on style by the Requiem for a Dream trailer.