MORE preparation for CCR!!

In this blog post similar to last week I will be conducting research for the ccr questions. Specifically, question number one:
how does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? 

 After researching conventions, I found my genre being a sports drama is very specific, therefore I will have to take information from both sports and drama film and then meld it together. This genre is one that is not too popular and as stated before is a hybrid of sports and drama films.

Sports films

Our film challenges some of the conventions of sports drama because they are usually on a real person. They are commonly biographies of famous sports stars. The sports that they are mostly on are football, baseball, and wrestling. In addition, most famous sports films star an older male lead.

Instead, our film is on track, an uncommon sport in these types of films. We also star a female lead who is in her teens. Our film is not based on any person in particular and is completely fiction.  But, like most sports films the opening of our film establishes the sport the film will be on. Also, they are usually focused on one person instead of a team and our main character is, of course, Elena. Here are some famous ones:
    

Drama films

Drama films usually contain a character that can relate to the audience. In our case, the age range we chose, 14-25, covers those we believe will best relate to our film. Conflicts in drama films are realistic struggles. Running out is about a low-class female that struggles to get into college and to find the means to get into it as well. These films also rely on conflict to make it more dramatic. Running out's conflict is a lack of funds she has to get into college. Of course, she relies on track to get a sports scholarship, but in the opening, it is not guaranteed she will do well at her meet. It is that sense of wanting to know what will happen next that we will get the audience interested in watching the rest of our film. 

Here are some famous ones: