In what ways does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of realmedia products? 

Evaluation question for ‘Only Business’

Our media product develops a stereotypical view of how young adults are often portrayed in certain areas of the media already, for example film and television productions such as Top Boy and Ill Manors. Similarly our film opening places the characters into the same social group as these media productions. The young adults characters who are seen in our film opening use violence against each other and also abusive language, these actions and use of language are often applied to similar media productions based around the modern crime genre. We thought it was necessary to use these aspects of drama and language, in order to make the audience feel that the film does a good job in conforming to the particular social class of young adults that can be seen in our production.

Like many other media productions based in the crime genre our production uses a clear distinction between hero and villain, meaning that our production conforms to the traditional formula of crime genre, this can clearly be seen just from our opening. 

Our media production challenges some of the existing media productions based in the crime genre, as it not only has clear conventions of illegal activity (crime) but it also shows briefly an aspect of family betrayal between two of the characters. This may differ from existing media products, as they may focus more purely on the crime which takes place, where as we have tried to make our production's focus more diverse.