In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our film product uses many of the forms and conventions that are portrayed in numerous film noir detective films. We have stereotypically used a lone detective to show our audience that we are using the main codes and conventions of film noir but expanding on them with our own interpretations to represent a modern society, for example; The detective represents a lone detective, whom has great experience and knowledge in crime. As well as solving big murders and crimes, they have their own problems to sort, however putting our own twist on the character led us to changing several main roles in the film from male to female to represent the change in gender and roles. Finally the Detective's partner is played by a male actor to suggest woman are gradually becoming the more dominent character and are able to gain the better jobs, this is also backed up with our main major character being female; 'Marilyn'
All of the following film noir posters present the female character in the centre frame, either showing that she is main protagonist or antagonist. We felt that with this being a re-occuring theme we should stick to it with our films poster so that follows all of the film noirs codes and conventions. Making it more realistic and indicating a mysterious storyline as we have no actual knowledge of who the character shown is or her past.
Our final poster, as you can see we have modernised and developed our poster further by adding the typical director infromation in a slim and tall font across the photo and including ratings and verdicts from film magazines in the top left and right hand corners. Also the age certificate and the photoshoped production logo inidicates it is a modern day film, as this software wouldn't have been accesible for 1940s film production teams.
Our film product uses many of the forms and conventions that are portrayed in numerous film noir detective films. We have stereotypically used a lone detective to show our audience that we are using the main codes and conventions of film noir but expanding on them with our own interpretations to represent a modern society, for example; The detective represents a lone detective, whom has great experience and knowledge in crime. As well as solving big murders and crimes, they have their own problems to sort, however putting our own twist on the character led us to changing several main roles in the film from male to female to represent the change in gender and roles. Finally the Detective's partner is played by a male actor to suggest woman are gradually becoming the more dominent character and are able to gain the better jobs, this is also backed up with our main major character being female; 'Marilyn'
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