Evaluation Q1.

How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our opening sequence uses props which other real media products would use, for example guns. When we did our research we saw that all action films use weapons, most of them being guns. We also challenged stereotypes and conventions of real media products because there are no men in the opening sequence. The British agent in our film is a female which isnt usually done in action films, it is usually men who is the main part. We challenged this stereotype because when we did our questionnaires whilst planning, we found that a lot of people said they would find it interesting to see more of females as main roles and involved in the action. Lara Croft Tomb Raider is a film which supports our representation of women as she is the lead role. Paramount also distributed this film which is the reason we chose to use it. Lara Croft did very well at the box office grossing $274,703,340.