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In the following pages of this PowerPoint I will be defining the term Real

Media Texts, explaining and analysing the common conventions of a

horror film trailer, relating and linking them to well known theorists.

What are Real Media Texts?

Real Media Texts is any piece of media text you use, weather it be in day to

day life or apart of a working employment scenario. For example,

Newspapers, Videos, Magazines, Posters, Music, TV Programmes, Films

(especially Horror films as this PowerPoint is related to them) are a media

text because they are a part of the Media industry.

Real Media Texts (RMT)


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Scream 4 Trailer


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Scream 4 Trailer


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Scream 4 Trailer


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Scream 4 Trailer

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Scream 4 TrailerConventions:

The scream 4 film trailer includes the following conventions;- Jumpy, tense and suspense music that follows the horror genre mood and

exaggerates the reality.

- Fast, jump cut editing.

- Montage style trailer.

- Close up of victims facial expression. (Shocked and/or Scared).

- Contains a hero/villain, heroin and other key well known characters. Relating tonarrative theorist Vladimir Propp.

- Helpless woman, stereotypical character because shes young.

- The trailer follows parts ofTodorovstheory of Equilibrium Disequilibrium

Equilibrium and we get the sense that the film relates to the theory almost

exact.

- Involves blood, gore and death. Typical of a horror genre film.

- Very pretty and gorgeous actors, relates to Laura Mulveys Male Gaze theory.

- Manipulates the idea of innocent teenagers which gives a strong scare factor as

they are too young to die, dont deserve torture.


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Nightmare on Elm Street Trailer


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Conventions:

The Nightmare on Elm Street Trailer film trailer includes the followingconventions;

- Typical ugly looking supernatural male villain, common in Horror films.

- Manipulates the idea of innocent teenagers which gives a strong scare factor as

they are too young to die, dont deserve torture.

- Fast, jump cut editing.

- Montage style trailer.

- Close up of victims facial expression. (Shocked and/or Scared).

- Involves blood, gore and death. Typical of a horror genre film.

- Very pretty and gorgeous actors, relates to Laura Mulveys Male Gaze theory.

- A lot of darkness used in both the film trailer and the film.

- Each even that happens in the film trailer has its equal opposite, which relatesback to Claude Lvi-Strauss Binary Opposition theory.

- Relates to the typical young kidnapping/child molesting bad experiences we

here all over the news today. This links into Stuart Halls developed audience

theory of the Reception theory.


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Piranha 3D Trailer


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Piranha 3D Trailer


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Piranha 3D Trailer


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Piranha 3D Trailer


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Piranha 3D Trailer


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Piranha 3D Trailer


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Piranha 3D TrailerConventions:

The Piranha 3D Trailer film trailer includes the following conventions;- Supernatural beings in the film, thousands of killer Piranhas.

- Lots of dark spooky clips towards the beginning.

- The element of the unknown.

- Out of the field of vision tension.

- Typically young, dumb and nave teenage victims.

- Isolated desert and lake area, no major authority.

- Un-stereotypical Hero police woman.

- Exaggerated sound effects, typical convention to add the element of terror and

horror.

- Blood, guts, gore and death.

- Good looking male and female characters, hardly any overweight or ugly characters,links into Laura Mulveys Male Gaze theory.

- Story styled trailer, which in a way reveals far to much of the film. What we dont

see in the trailer we can fill in the gaps, leaving no reason to go to watch the film.

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