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

I think that our video challenges the certain stereotypes of which teenagers/ young adults of the 90's generation face from the media. We are represented in a way which is mainly negative and all most 90% of the time it is not the case. For Example we used an unexpected couple. The male in the relationship was a waster to put it bluntly. He would sit at home daily and not look for a job while his long term partner would be at college learning how to become a teacher. She would go on placement and do different activities daily with the children. When the male would sit at home and take drugs all day or think about how he was going to get his next fix. By using this individual couple, in which one person does drugs and has for a long time, and the other has never done drugs before, it shows the contrast between two people who otherwise are very close for whatever reason this may be.

Our film then continues to show the Beginning of the relationship of the two people and how close they are even with their differences in consideration of this. The girl then persists to ask the boy what its like doing drugs, especially the drugs he's on, heroin. When the girl then asks about doing drugs the boy is weary of the decision and answer he then gives.

The film then goes on to show how the choices that the female character had were wrong and that she shouldn’t have made the decision which she had.

As most people of our generation are shown as heartless thugs we decided to combine the two, we showed the male in an attire which would make him look like the typical stereotype of a thug, he was wearing a hoody and some jeans in the shot of him at a grave stone, when he could have wore something more respectable, but to him his attire was adequate to the situation of which he was placed in. As he knew that his long term partner loved him and wouldn’t have minded what he visited her grave in just as long as he remembered her. The footage which we took makes the male look very emotional and like he's thought in depth about the consequences of his actions and what exactly they have caused.

The story then goes on to tell the story of how the man is living with his guilt and how it has turned his life around. Our film then goes on to challenge forms and conventions of real media products because it shows a different side to how teenagers or young people are presented by the media itself. For example kids are always on drugs, alcohol, or medication, all of which to fit a stereotype? Children are shown in series such as skins and misfits as being time wasters. We wanted to project another side of the traumas and emotions of teenagers and young adults of society.