Evaluation question 1

My Media products not only follows the forms and conventions of other horror trailers, magazines, and film posters, but also challenges them. Firstly, My narrative

consists on being based on a true story, which is common amongst some of the popular films such as The Conjuring. However, I have had to change it slightly, as I wanted to

create a more horror and ghostly theme, which means that I would be changing the historical story of The Moors murders. Therefore I have created characters and a

storyline following the inspiration of the crime.

Title cardsI have noticed that many title cards have a black background within horror film trailers, however through research I did come across a film called The hallows, where the title cards related to the films narrative. I decided to follow this as it was different in comparison to the basic black background convention of horror title cards. Therefore I created my title cards with a earthy feeling, as the colours used are brown and green which links to the theme of the Woods were the murders took place.

TitleObserving other Titles in horror films, I realised that they are creative and often are simple but stand out having a tense

feeling. I challenged the conventions slightly, by creating the title to link to the film by using an effect of showing a branch

(links to the woods) to underline the title text by showing blood dripping off it. I feel this is effective as it is something

unique that most horror films do not have.

Shot typesIn comparison to shot types, I haven't challenged them as it may become confusing to the audience and become less appealing. However I used a variety of pan shots, close ups (to highlight emphasis on fear) and tilt shots (to show something is not right). I feel that these shot types work well as they allow the trailer to show shots of normal and tense. scenes.

CharactersThrough research I have noticed that each character has a different personality and role towards the film. It is stereotypical for a man to be the Hero and saviour in a Horror film, however I have challenged this as I wanted to make a female character the saviour. the audience will not be able to see the ending of the film however they will be able to tell that the younger sister is the more braver one as she actually watches the DVD’s and reads the diary. I also followed the stereotypical convention of dressing the smarter character in glasses.

VictimThe victim of my trailer is a female, which follows the convention of a horror film. This is shown clearly as most the times it is her who is getting chased or sees the horrific DVD’s first.

Production IdentA simple convention in a horror trailer is showing the production ident briefly. This is what I have done by creating my own Ident using After effects.

MagazineFor my magazine I followed the usual conventions of using a Masthead, sell lines, direct address ect. I also used an image that shows direct address as Through research I have noticed that this is common. I didn't want to challenge the conventions too much as it would mean that it may not look like a magazine in the end.

Main image

Sell lines

Masthead

Barcode

Anchorage text

Date and issueSkyline

Film posterMy Film poster also follows similar conventions to other horror film posters. I have also included the same title style as my film trailer with my poster. I feel this will be effective and memorable to the audience. Also, through my poster research I know that Ronald Barthes notices certain functions of horror film posters, which I have included in my poster.

Enigma code

Hermeneutic code

Symbolic code

Proairetic code