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

1) The film title shank comes from a slang meaning to stab someone. This title really fits in to the convention of the genre we are using because the title connotes that the film is about gangsters, crime and death. this is exactly what we have tried to do by making the title of our film live by the streets, die by the street in order for us to be able to stick to this convention.

2) We used similar setting and location that where used in shank such as street and building estates like flats (lago tower).We used these types of locations they are usually used in films of this genre as they are usually associated with crime and proverty which fits in well with our film and the story line quite well.

3) We used costumes and props from kidulthood this is because the characters in kidulthood wore clothes like hoodies, hats etc. this are also a common conventions of crime films as those type of clothing are usually associated with crime and fear.So we made sure to stick to this convention by having our main character dress in this type of clothes.

4)  For camera work and editing we used shank as well as a guide to what kind of camera work and editing is expected from a film in this genre.This is because this film captures a lot of different shot types and camera work to create the atmosphere of a crime / gangster genre film.

5) We decided to use kidulthood for title font and style. this is because of the colour types of colours used for example film of this genre usually use a lot of black to connote death and black and white is also used to connote good vs bad (evil, vs hero in the film)  So this we why we decided to use this type of colour and title scheme for our film.

6) We used 4 3 2 1 for this, this is because the opening of their film is very good as it tells us a story and immediately shows us it's a crime film just by looking at the opening sequence. also 4 3 2 1 is also good as it challenges the convention of typical crime films by showing the film backwards and flash forwarding to the end at the beginning of the film before telling us the whole story.

7) We used adulthood because this film clearly shows the genre of the film 

8) We used kidulthood to show how characters are introduced this is because at the beginning of the film all the main characters are shown.

9) We used shank to show special effects, although films of this genre do not really use a lot of editing in the films shanks have managed to use settle editing technics to show what type of film it is and it and they also have used editing to help tell the story in the film for example the editing technic used to show london 2015 helps tell the story in the film by letting us know the film is set in the future.