and now, for the beginning our our show.... answering question 1

Question #1 : How Does Your Product Use Or Challenge Conventions And How Does It Represent Social Groups Or Issues? 

Starting off this question by talking about genre conventions. Media Genres usually appear within a medium. A genre can be recognized by its distinguished features. These conventions include themes, setting, characters, plot lines, narrative structure, mood, props or significant objects. 

I chose to not challenge any genre conventions, for multiple reasons. The top drama films that have ever created usually contain the same idea of plots, shown in many different ways. 

The GodFather (1972) 

One of the best films in the industry of cinema is The Godfather. Mainly about keeping a healthy relationship between him and his wife.  The drama on him over coming obstacles as well as one of the main focus of his relationship. Receiving over 98% rating from one of the toughest critiques out there in the business. Genuinely, what made this such a good film was the fact that it relied on how he was at the main focus which is family. Family in every drama film is the key to a great production. Anything that has to deal with tough relationships between family members, will be set for a great Drama production. 

Roma (2018)

Another great film that revolves around family relationships is ROMA. This film is hands down a film that will always be remembered.  Not really challenging the genre conventions of Drama, Roma primarily focuses again on family relationships and how to over come them. Hence why it received a lot of profit and won many awards. 

Why did I not change the genre Conventions ? 

Drama films mainly revolve around usually relationships. In many of drama films the introduction is  always fulfilled with a depressing back ground story that sets the tone for the film. Or, the sad story comes in usually within the plot. Challenging the conventions was a risk I did not want to take because I wanted to create a typical Drama story that has different plots here and there. Challenging the conventions would have also lead to maybe delivering the message wrongly. Which was a HUGE risk that me and my partner, Ana could not be able to afford to make. We would have rather played it safe with the mood of sadness, the props that contrast the difference between our two characters to really represent the typical Drama conventions. In every Drama film there is always darkness but there is always light some where along the way. Wether it is with the characters or the plot line itself. Since it is a very serious project we decided to have rather get our message across then to mess with drama genre conventions that could have changed the whole tone of the movie. We chose not to challenge theme, mood, characters, and plot lines. We decided changing it would not really give the essence of our film. 

Representation in our production in the INTRODUCTION 

Our introduction of the production, "Love Me" relies heavily on representation. It relies on the typical Drama theme plot, where you have the sweet and innocent little girl filled with brightness and purity getting taken care of your typical mean, alcoholic father who is mourning about his wife's loss. Our little nine year old as character (Avaley) is a typical sweet girl that revolves around the color pink with stuffed animals that are all white.  We even hired our typical representation of a little girl that represents innocence. Typical blond girl with light eyes. We casted a little girl because audiences who view Drama films tend to have a soft side for little girls. As for our other protagonist (Damian) we have a typical representation of an alcoholic dad with tattoos, built up, very muscular with dark hair and dark eyes. Representing the tough side of a tough male.