Evaluation Q1

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

Poster

• žFor my poster, I used the movies The Grudge, house of wax and drag me to hell because they are quite simple and easy to realise. The main character is on the pig plan of the picture. The main actress' name is on the top of the page, the title is in red bold which co notates evil, danger, blood or anything sinister.
• žThe tag line is in white capital letters and is a hint for the degree of evilness that people can expect from the movie... and the background is quite effective in setting the mood in which the audience is expected to watch the movie.
• žThe film poster I have create ties in well with stereotypical conventions of a horror film. In order to get the effect I wanted, I researched other media posters of the genre I was aiming to achieve.  The colours were generally cold for example dark grey.  It connotes loneliness
•  žAll we see is a big white eyeball surrounded by dark eye Shadow in The Grudge, and the fact that her face is pale shows that it's not a normal person but rather a ghost or something malefic. I did the same with my poster however I took out my main characters eyeballs to challenge that convention. And her body is not pale but darker and colourful... 

•  Other horror poster conventions are:
  -A main picture
  -Ice blue
  -Dark background to represent the evilness of the character.
  
  
  My horror film poster conventions:
  -A dark sky as background and some light coming from the sky
  -A centred main picture
  -The subtitle in bold and red under the main characters head  

 

Movie Magazine

The film magazine front cover I have created mostly follows conventional patterns of real media products:

-The magazine name is clear and at the top. Usually going across and behind the main image.

-images on the front targeting a certain audience or reflecting a specific and easily recognisable film genre.

-Colour schemes are matching a maybe perhaps tie in with the main image.

-Font sizes vary on more important headings

-Several cover lines surrounding the main image to show what’s inside.

-the price and barcode are displayed somewhere in the bottom.
.

m

Film trailer

The film trailer we produced followed many codes and conventions of the horror genre such as:

• žA happy equilibrate first scene... The 4 friends walking around busting jokes until they met a stranger.
• žBlackout throughout with words on them to help the narrative (4 friends lost...)
• žPace rapidly progressing
• žCreepy background music
• žScreams
• žFilm titles

 1. In the first scene of our trailer is similar to one of the movie House of Wax. A group of friends walking on a street and a bunch of friends camping and chilling  and some random car comes then disappears... It’s the same as our movie where 4 friends are stopped by a stranger. This is placed in the beginning to contrast with the rest of trailer. This  is very common in horror films.

 2. Throughout the trailer we have added writing in order to give the audience hints to understand the narrative. We have added impact sounds almost each time writing appears. It builds the tension and the atmosphere, this is stereotypical of horror trailer conventions. And our trailer also contain the movie’s title at the end.

3. In our trailer the lightning goes from being very bright to very light...  And this is very typical of horror trailers. The lightning changes as the tension gets higher and higher.