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

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1         Our sequence suits the teen-horror genre in different ways, one of them is the fact that it only contains stereotypical teenagers and to add to the stereotype we decided to film at a house where teenagers are having a gathering drinking alcohol.  In teen movies there are always different groups of people like in the breakfast club for example there is an outsider, a jock, a prom queen, a geek and a bully, but we only had 4 people so it was a bit of a hassle to create groups, we however managed by having one outsider and one bully who is friends with girls. one of the differences from our sequence and a typical teen movie is that ‘ the final girl’ (the one that doesn’t drink and is responsible) in our case is a male character, also the teenage gathering is during the day and in almost all teen movies they always meet up at people’s houses at night. Another thing that differs from the usual teen/horror is that it’s a gathering and not a party and only contains a few people instead of hundreds. We tried to make our sequence look as professional as possible by using various shot distances, camera equipment (like a tripod) and continuous editing. The significant event that disrupts the equilibrium is a very similar one to ‘I know what you did last summer’.