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

Our media product fits with some of the horror conventions such as:

Stock characters

The geek

The jock

These are common stock characters are used in the horror conventions

Themes

Our media product fits with some of the horror conventions such as:

Seeking revenge

ObsessionWanting to be accepted Bullying Murder

Our media product fits with some of the horror conventions such as:

Shot types

Close up shot

Fast mid shots

Crane shot: High angled

Long panning shot

Panning shot

Many different settings used

Motifs and symbols

As like in many horror trailers or films there are recurring objects or key symbols that are shown throughout. We decided to do the same thing so that the audience would realise when someone is going to be killed or tortured.

Challenging forms and conventions

Music/Sound effects

We didn’t use horror genre music throughout the whole trailer.

We used some sound effects but over background music

We used a hip hop genre of music that is played throughout our trailer. This was chosen so that our target audience could relate to it and to go against the conventions.

No use of a voice over

Sentences used as a narrator

The protagonist/killer

We decided to go against the conventions of horror trailers and show who our killer was. This was done so that the audience ask questions and wonder what happens to the other characters (victims) in the film

We didn’t use any masks to hide the killers identity.

We show the audience some of the killers background, so that they feel some sympathy for that character