Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, challenge or develop forms and conventions of real media products.

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, challenge or develop forms and conventions of real media products.

Our media product challenged the common ideology of male and female gender conventions by placing our male character as the damsel in distress, although a capable fighter in our film the character of Steve played by Matthew is still the one put in harms way. This would usually be the time for Martha's character to come into play because this would usually be a female role but instead we chose to use a male character to challenge the social norms.

Our product also challenged the norms of male dominated media, usually in films you will see a cast full of male characters doing high payed jobs with lots of dialogue but its very rare you see females take on the same social status. Which is why we changed it round a bit, we decided to make it fair we would have an equal ratio of male to female characters with equal amounts of dialogue. This worked out perfectly as our group of four had two males and two females, making it easy to cast for our film and the dialogue was easy to assign for all characters. 

Our product also played to its strengths by using conventions that would be found elsewhere in zombie thrillers, we thought this would be good because if so many zombie films have made it this far then they must be doing something right. We chose to follow horror iconography by adding things like typical zombie walk and aesthetics, whilst we followed things like genre conventions by adding a male and female couple that have to survive the odds in a zombie apocalypse and the stereotypical news broadcast of a deadly disease that is sweeping the nation and seeks to kill everyone by turning them into flesh eating rage machines.

Our product developed the usual conventions by adding an atmosphere to the usual zombie thriller, this means we had all the usual good stuff from the usual zombie films but still retained our own individual spin on the product. This is what makes our film good, not only was it made with a very small budget but it is also a good film because of things like this we took into consideration so that we could achieve a better rating by a larger and more varied audience.