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

Our film product uses the forms and conventions of real media products because we use the same idea as a lot of film noir detective films, where the detective is more of a lone detective, who is smart and knows a lot about being a detective, but somewhere has their own problems.  For example, Detective Sam Spade in 'The Maltese Falcon' would be considered as a lone detective after his partner Miles Archer is shot dead; Sam Spade would be considered to be a smart and well dressed detective, the same as our detective, but also he has his own problems, Sam's being with his love life with Bridget O'Shaunessy. We develop the idea of real media products by changing the idea of male dominance in Film Noir, detective films especially, where woman are dominated by men in the work place; in our film, the main detective is a female and her partner is male. We also develop the idea that the main detective saves the day, when in fact, in our film her partner saves the day. Finally we challenge the idea of a female being a detective and the main character in the film.