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

I have analysed numerous trailers and I feel that our trailer has challanged forms and conventions of the genre. For example, we havn't used much dialogue in the trailer but used a piano piece over the top to create tension. We have used text to help show the stroyline eg. 'Two Broken Brothers'. This makes up for the lack of dialogue and so the audience know what is going on. We used the tagline 'Love Will Tear The Apart' which is a twist on the song 'Love will tear us apart' by Joy Division. This will help give the audience familiarity as our target audience are likely to know that song. This will inspire them to go watch the film. There is a quite clip of the two brothers fighting in our trailer which can be seen as a convention of social-realism. For example, it is present in the 'Sweet Sixteen' trailer. There is a shot of me up against a fence looking out into fields. We have used symbolism here as it suggest that he is trapped because of the baby and he is looking out into the open world. Drugs can also be seen as a covention of social-realism fillm which is present in our trailer where Danny deals cocaine to another boy. This is showing that he has turned to crime. The last three shots are quick cuts of each of the the main characters. It shows how each of them is dealing with the stress of the pregnancy. The first shot shows Danny drug dealing which shows that he doesn't seem very affected by it. The last two are of Cora then me who are both sat down looking depressed. This leaves the audience worried about their welfare and will make them wnat to go watch the film to see how it ends up. The film poster also challanges the codes and conventions as Danny is wearing white which represents purity and innocence but we know he is the antaganist and is very sly whereas Jack is wearing black to show darkness but he is actually quite innocent and hurt.