Evaluation, Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the conventions of real media products ?

To make this a successful film, we kept to many of the typical areas in the romantic drama/comedy conventions. We have kept the obvious ones for good reason, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy tries to get girl back, boy gets girl back. This is the base for almost all romances, any stray from the usual or tweaks on it may be disastrous and not give the effect that  the film maker intended, although the twist may have been innovative and interesting. I say this, but our film ends with them not exactly getting together, but meeting up again after an unfortunate event in the hope that a sequel could of been made and them getting together would be the desired result. We haven't changed the characters drastically. We have kept them as the typical boy and the typical girl, fun loving and popular with their friends. We have made sure that the film was light hearted and not too serious, as it is a romance, not everything is going to be deadly serious throughout and joking may happen.
All this is correct, a film cannot be a certain genre without certain parts to it that make it, well, it. However, certain tweaks to films can be made. Certain changes that don't drastically remove what makes that film what it is, but give a certain aspect that makes it new and better than the rest. Our twist to the gere we picked (romantic drama/comedy), is that at the end of such films, the main characters usually end up together there and then, in our film, they don't. Our film has them just meet at the end under a circumstance which then leaves room for a sequel, if a sequel is possible it may not even be needed. Leave it up to the imagination to figure out what happens to them. Not much change has been made to it as we didn't want to stray to far away from the safety of the standard conventions of romance films, as too much change could remove either the romance element or the drama/comedy side of it..We tried to make sure that the conventions stayed as true to what they are, and followed such film as 'The Holiday' and 'Dear John'.