QUESTION NO 1In what ways

does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of real media?

Our media text conformed to the generic conventions of horror in that, our character tried to emulate 'Patrick Bateman' with his suave characteristics. The generic convention of a slasher film usually has a male protagonist character who is typically a middle aged white male however, in our production we challenged the stereotype and used a young black male.

Another generic convention of a slasher film uses gory murder scenes and blood to make the audience feel the pain of the victim. In our production, we used costume make up to stimulate violence and gore. This represents slasher and sets the storyline for the movie ensuring the audience knows the genre of the movie.

The isolated scenes of  the victim is a play on all the isolated locations of 'Halloween' and 'insidious 2'. Slasher films often use isolated locations such as warehouses or in a forest to kill victims. We used this generic convention in our production for the scenes on the victim in the studio room. This conveys confinement and helplessness enhancing the masochistic behaviour of the audience.