1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
When we edited our original opening sequence, we realised that it wasn't right and didn't fit the Film Noir genre as well as we first anticipated. This caused us to rethink our opening and we decided on a new story, based on the Roald Dahl book 'Lamb to the Slaughter'.
I think our media product reflects and represents the Film Noir genre conventions well. We included a traditional male detective, a femme fatale and even edited our filming into black and white. This effect and the characters costumes gave it a more authentic look and further referred to the classic Film Noir genre conventions.
I think that we challenged and 'played' with some of the generic conventions of classic Film Noir. For example, typical settings include bars, nightclubs, gambling dens etc. however we decided to set our film in the domestic setting of a kitchen. This is partly because this was available to us and easily accessible and some Film Noir films are set in a more domestic settings such as 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'. Also, our film is based around a husband and wife, so a kitchen setting gives it a twist on the typical Film Noir settings.
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