Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The Title of my group’s film is The GodDaddy.

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28Days later in bold condensed for the production name.
Birch white for the cast names and Title of Film.

The location we used most was in the studio room because there was lots of space and good lighting resources aswell as the room being able to be pitch black, but we also shot a scene in an alley way beacuse it was prefect for the gun shot scene as the alley way was damp looking aswell as grim.

Our costume was basically shirts and blazers so it’s a formal gangster convention but more relaxed and lazy relating to the spoofy sub genre. But with the interrogaated drug seeker 'Vinny' we have not given him a tie and un-buttoned the top button on his collar so that it suits his character of trying to fit in with the godafther but not quite as well.

These are the props we have used in our opening sequence such as the 'sherbet filled cocaine bags' for the drug deal along with the money in the case to which is chocolate coins this relates to the spoof sub genre of our sequence. The picture next to it is the products we used to make the sherbet bags.

We also have in the picture above the toy cat which sit's on the lap of the Goddaddy, this relates to the film The Godfather which we based our opening sequence on. 

We also used toy guns we are going to use for the gun shooting scene; we have one rather bigger gun compared to the other one to seem more over exaggerated and funny like a spoof. used in the scene above. The marshmallow’s we used to make the actor who plays the character of 'The Goddaddy' have the same sort of tone of voice and way of speaking as the Godfather in the film The Godfather. We also used a real cigar in our film which is a typical gangster convention, especially as our film is similar to the Godfather.

For Lighting in the studio we switched the main light off in the room, and set up an overhead lamp above the table that we did an interrogation on aswell as the sofa scene, this was a gangster convention as shown in the famous film the godfather.

In our film we will have 4 characters all together, but two main characters. The GodDaddy is a highly respected, powerful and formal gangster, he decides whether he will give the drug seeker what he wants or send him off to be taught a lesson. Vinny is nervous, but eager drug seeker who doesn’t realise whose toes he’s stepping on but soon realises that he is not getting what he wanted. Pauly D is a drug dealer, like the godfather she has stern and formal ways when it comes to who she deals with and who does not deserve the deals. The character who shoots vinny in the alley is the un-named mysterious hitman.

All of the footage we shot was filmed from the same height and angle, we moved the camera to the side to film an over shoulder shot of Vinny shaking hands with the dealer. We also zoomed in to Vinny’s eyes to do a cut shot to show his fear to the audience. We also filmed a cut shot of the ‘drugs’ and chocolate money to show the deal. Our last scene starts off where the GodDaddy’s eyes are being filmed, and then we zoomed slowly out revealing the GodDaddy on the sofa with a cigar. 

Our opening sequence has had the black & white effect added to it, to relate to the dark crime conventions, that something doodgey and dangerous is going to happen. We also had the typcial gangster sub-genre conventions such as cigar's formal attire, drug dealing, guns, and alcohol. Also the chocolate coins that were being exchanged for the drugs gave a message to teh audience of the sequence having an element of comedy/spoof related to the sub-genre. As well as cast such as the GodDaddy being a female with a moustache, and the character Vinny's acting such as the scene where he runs out of the room he does it in a way that seems funny rather than serious. But then the serious, crime convention plays in just before the ending scene where Vinny is shot dead by a silhouette figure in an alley who is one of the GodDaddy's Hitmen who's name is unknown.


2. For our film we challenged the typical conventions of the classic film  aswell as using the conventions of The GodFather film, we kept most of the seriousness and used some of the lines for our opening sequence, we even used the cat in our clip aswell as having a cigar and dressed in formal suits. The way in which we challenged the typical conventions is that with out film we decided to make our film as a spoof sub genre aswell as gangster and the main crime genre such as using the stuffed cat.