Question 1

Firstly, I believe that our media product, The Journey, follows the forms and conventions of its genre. The main convention of a sports drama, would be the following;

• A sporting event/ or a very big game
• A sport athlete
• Equilibrium
• Disruption
• Resolution
• Success

In terms of a sporting event, our title sequence is more of a prologue which brings up the narrative for the beginning of the film. However within the plot of the film, Jack does have a big game which is the game of the film which will determine whether or not Totteham wins the league. We believe that this is what is expected in a sports film. Comparing it to other films, Goal Trilogy has a big game in every movie they have made. The same goes for Creed as his last fight would be his most important way.

We didn't have a problem in adapting Jack as an Athlete as he already plays football In his leisure time. We believe that we followed the forms and conventions, but once again, we didn't show this in the sequence although the audience could tell by looking at his body and legs. It is conventional of a sports film to have a fit and sporty athlete in it because that is what is expected. Especially as a football film, our protagonist suits this very well.

Many sports film include a utopian view of the world which is where whoever works hard and determined, and plays by the rules will succeed. our media product achieves this as we scenes throughout our media product where we see footages of younger Jack compared to him now. For example, the scene where he is doing only a few kick ups where as it transitions into the next clip older Jack is able to do it a lot more easier. However, some may disagree with the utopian perspective of life because of how a person social class may be a cutting edge to this.

The music of our media product follows the forms and conventions of the sports genre because of how it starts of with an upbeat music and carries on for most of the clip, this then leads onto to a slower piano type soundtrack as it would be an emotional moment for Jack as his hard work would have paid off. This is similar to the Utopian view.

We used the conventions of using the same angle in some of our clips. This Is because we wanted to show how the younger Jack developed to become the older Jack. We felt as if this would have explained to the audience that Jack has changed. We followed the forms and conventions for the sports genre because of how it was edited. For example, instead of using jump cut, I added a transition to show the audience that it is the same person but from the future. This technique can also be done looking into the past, but instead of using the blend together transition, we would use the white transition because it connotes a sense of flashback.