In what ways does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product

The way in which our radio drama use and challenges forms and conventions of real media products is for example in the radio drama ‘The Archers’ they expose many storylines, although our radio drama in the episode is just one story based on the fallout, rape and suicide we have previous recap episodes of which again is common in real media products. I feel that ‘Listen’ used many similar conventions to other radio drama’s for example use of music, sounds effects, silence and audio of which is found in many of radio dramas I order to make the pieces effective. When researching into our genre teenage drama I didn’t find that there was many other of our genre out there, which made it hard to compare our drama to others of the same genre where the forms and conventions are portrayed therefore challenging the genre category present at the moment.

The way our radio drama uses the forms and conventions of other media products mostly would be the wide range of sound effects we used as all dramas seem to use these in order to gain effect. Also the way in which we used the forms of real media products is our radio drama having a dramatic ending and also a somewhat questioning feel to it. What is Roxy going to do? Will Belle forgive her? Will Max get What he deserves?

In relation to the radio drama ‘The Archers’ I found that all the characters were well expressed to the audience where as in our radio drama some characters e.g. Joe were not displayed much leaving people in our audience fed back asking why this is.