Evaluation - Question 1. Forms and Conventions.

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

This is fairly straight forwards - another way to put it would be to say:

How typical is your film of it's genre?

Remember that conventions are features that have come to be seen as typical of certain genres. Masks are a convention of films in the Horror genre etc. You can think about generic conventions across the following areas:

Character Types
Settings
Narrative Structure
Iconography (significant objects)
Sound (Both diegetic and non-diegetic)

So - the question you are being asked here is how closely your film follows typical generic conventions in these areas. You should definitely make reference to other films within the same genre - both classical and contemporary. Refer back to the films that you wrote about as part of your research as they are in the same genre as your own film.

Perhaps the best way to start is to make a list of the conventions of the genre that you have been working in under the 5 headings above and then from here begin to think about how you have used these conventions in your own production. You also need to explain why and how you have used these conventions. It's just as important to discuss any areas in which you have deviated from generic conventionality - if you haven't used the typical features of the genre, explain why. It may be that you have chosen to create a generic hybrid, for example.

Question 2 guidance to follow shortly...