In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of the real world media products?

My film opening very much follows that of the major film companies, in fact my film opening has directly based upon the format of the market leader.  The market leaders are companies like Warner Brothers Studios established in 1929, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation which was founded in 1935 and Paramount Pictures Cooperation founded in 1912. For decades these film companies have been providing the market with blockbuster Movies, Tv Shows and even Music in some cases. then you have some smaller institutions which include;

1. Universal Pictures
2. Columbia Pictures
3. United Artists 
4. HanWay Films 
5. Walt Disney Pictures
6. Three Mills Studios

These examples are only a select few,  list goes on...

The film starts with not one but two different types of institutional logos. First we have the Film Institution ‘Han Way Films’ along with other film institutions that may have contributed in the production of the film (in this case Adulthood) like ‘Stealth Films’ along with ‘Cipher Films.’ Once the institutions have been introduced then and only the can the film begin. This has been the basis of how my film opening has started.  Rather in my case I decided challenge the form of a film gangster opening as in film a female protagonist has been used which completely goes against the stereotype that males are the only gender that could be considered a menace to society. So rather than follow the crowd, Motherland has taken an alternative view on things by having a female gangster as the main character with a male only playing a side role. Adulthood was the inspiration for my film so all my film is another interpretation of the Gangster/Youth/Coming of Age genre.

Adulthood has been the inspiration behind Motherland, the environment has be sculpted around values brought in and throughout both Kidulthood and Adulthood. Gangster Films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or gangsters, i.e. underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and doing drug moulding their lives around the law violently decapitating   their way through life. the connection between Motherland and classic 1940s criminal mob film or even modern gangster films i.e. Adulthood is the innocent person who gets mixed up with wrong people looking for a way out. In the 1940s, a new type of crime thriller emerged, more dark and cynical. 

1940's Gangsters

Gangster stories in this genre often highlight the life of a crime figure or in this instance the crime figure looking for a way out of their wayward lifestyle in personal power struggles and order figures i.e. the male antagonist. Headline-grabbing situations, real-life gangsters, or crime reports have often been used in crime films. Gangster films are usually set in large, crowded cities, to provide a view of the secret world of the criminal but in this case as this film was not produced under a multi-million pound film institution: so dark nightclubs, streets with lurid neon signs, fast cars, piles of cash, sleazy bars and  contraband were a bit far-fetched.

There is not we know about the character other than his name is James and that we assume that he is also part of this drug gang. What we do know is that he is not the nicest person and that sometimes he can be very intimidating. he is wearing the typical 'Gang' type clothing which consist of dark jeans and a lot of black. This is because it is easier to sneak away if they were ever to get into trouble, enabling them to get away easier and 'drift into the night.' the first and final impression that we get from James is that he is not a nice character and that he can be vicious but unfortunately the first time we see this character appear in the fim is at the end only to find out the death awaits him.