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

film)

For our film opening my group has chosen to focus on challenging the stereotype’s presented in urban drama. Our film opening is presented in a typical urban environment and time scale which further complements the actions done in the opening, however towards the end we subverted the stereotype of youths being negative, involved in gangs and overall not pleasant people.

This is the typical view that people have of urban youths. Mostly associated with gangs, and typically all come from working class black or white backgrounds

We wanted to show that we subverted the stereotype in order to show something different. As shown on most urban drama movie in recent times they mostly all conform to the stereotype and show the negatives rather then the positives.

This is along the lines of what we wanted to show when we subverted the stereotype of urban youths. Our character showed that although you come from an urban background it is possible to make something of yourself . Audiences are accustomed to seeing the typical gang setting and someone getting killed we wanted the audience to see that there can be another side to urban drama movies. A much positive

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

For our film opening we have chosen to represent the youths in urban dramas. We wanted to show the typical attitudes and representations of young adults in this was the main focus around our opening as it influenced the kind of setting and time we chose to film.

This is the typical location of our film opening.

these choices we made helped bring out the negative representation that we wanted to show. However we also showed the other side to urban youths, we showed the side of youths which were in good jobs and working instead of participating in gang activity. This allowed us to give both portrayals and contrast between.