Evaluation Question 1

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

Teaser Trailer
When making our teaser trailer we used cliché codes and conventions a horror film Then we challenged and developed these to make our trailer look more unique and different from the others. I am going to compare my trailer to The Last Exorcism and The exorcism as that is where most of are inspirations came from.Here are some ways in which i think we used codes and conventions of a horror.


Use

• Most Horror trailers use lots of blood to attract the audience showing how gory it is
• We also used a girl as the one to be possessed as this is the case in both The exorcist and the last Exorcism
• We also used a priest in our trailer which is also used in both the other films, this is to show the religious aspects of the film.
• The girl also that is chosen to be possessed is the innocent one who protested against doing the Ougi board this is typical in most horror films.

Develop

•  We created a blue tinge effect which is similar to paranormal activity which hasn't been used for a possession film yet. This creates a ghostly spirit effect
•  Also we used the mirror on the wall as away for the girl whoms victim of possession to communicate to her parents
•  We also used lots of Flashes and fast editing showing the audience a good insite of the film
• Used lots of different cinematography and editing such as Slow zooms and high angels showing Steph chasing her victims.

Challenge

• Challenged the typical horror genre by having Steph as the final girl theory by Carol Clover but with a twist as Steph is also the villain in the teaser trailer
• We also used a Ougi board which has not yet been used in a possession film as its usually spirits not demons they communicate with.

Magazine

Use: I used a colour scheme of just 3 colors. Red, Black and white. This makes my magazine follow most overs and look professional
. I was inspired the layout from the Empire film magazine
. I chose to use a dominant image of Stephs face which was also inspired by a Empire magazine


Develop
. I used similar small subtitles in speech marks describing the film also seen on the exorcist poster
. I also used the advertising of different films and wrote about them.

Challenge
. Even though I used Steph as the dominate image I edited the photo so it shows both the possessed and the normal side of Steph
. I made the Magazine a special edition version dedicated to horror.















Poster
Use: I used similar font to the one from the last exorcism as it looked very religious and old fashioned
. I also used the style from the unborn poster of her looking in the mirror to see the possessed person.

Develop
I developed the poster by
. Merging two photos together to create the mirror effect
. Used a tag line that matched with the image
" Everybody has their demons" This shows the demon within steph looking back at her in the mirror

Challenge
. I used the gradient tool to give it a blue tinge giving it a creepy ghostly look.
. I also washed out most of the background so the main image stands out better