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

We chose to display our opening credits in an uncommon way, we begin by displaying all of the actors, crew and jobs allocated, and the last title is the name of the film. This creates a sort of suspense where the audience will find out who the actors are, and who did what, and at last, find out the name of the film, which will fit in with the opening scene just shown. Our production flows with the titles as the titles are somewhat involved with the footage, ie; "Karl Mould" shoots out of the gun, this creates a nice flow of credits being displayed leading up to the final title.
               The researched that was carried out enabled us to follow codes and conventions of similar gangster titles, and the end results lead us to use typical props such as; guns, suits, drinks etc. Mafia in similar films do not have much speech and therefore this was kept to a minimum as most of the concentration was on the death of the two mafia guys. We tried to hide the identity of the assassin until the very last moment, and this is how the story will continue, by seeing the killers' face, the mafia strike back at who has hired the assassin.
               Conventional products and forms were challenged by using a more modern approach to typical mafia and old style gangster products. The use of CCTV and a bright light next to the focused actor challenges the typical idea of darkness, hidden identities and secrecy.

CCTV effect