Question 1: In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

Horror Film Poster

• In regards to my film poster, I carried out quite a lot of research as I looked at 2 romance genre posters, 2 horror genre posters, 1 fantasy poster and 1 comedy genre poster. This was in order to compare the layout and presentation of film posters for different genres. When looking at my final poster to those that I

Horror Film Poster

• came across for the horror genre, I can see many similarities. These being the conventions of horror being displayed on my poster, for instance the idea of the doll on my poster looking as if it was being sucked into the darkness is something that The Last Exorcism poster, that I analysed, has. Also, from The Devil Inside poster, it is clear that I

Horror Film Poster

• chose a close-up of the doll because of how effective the close-up of the nun was. I found that it was very scary to analyse and I found myself trying to make eye-contact with the nun. This is something I wanted my poster to have, in reference to the doll. I also found that most horror posters were darkly

Horror Film Poster

• themed, as the colours used were mainly black and red, with the exception of white, which is mainly only used as it stands out the most against black. Thus, I had a black blackground on my poster and designed my title to be white, in a simple font to coincide with the typical horror poster fonts that are plain but are

Horror Film Poster

• in a large size, that make it more effective. Using the idea of having some red on my poster, I decided to put the 'coming soon' text in a deep red and then put a red streak through the letters on 'The Innocent Curse' so the poster did not look to plain, as well as to match the 'coming soon' text. I also added credits as these are very commonly

Horror Film Poster

• used on horror posters, to display the main actors, producers, directors and other individuals involved in the film making process. One thing which they did not have, but I used, was the rating age. I put the '18' rating on my poster to make the audience get the impression that the film would be even scarier, as they would expect it to be if it was rated 18.

Horror Film Poster

• used on horror posters, to display the main actors, producers, directors and other individuals involved in the film making process. One thing which they did not have, but I used, was the rating age. I put the '18' rating on my poster to make the audience get the impression that the film would be even scarier, as they would expect it to be if it was rated 18.

Horror Film

• With my actual film, that I created in a group with 3 other individuals, I watched a variety of short horror films that were available to watch on YouTube, These include Dollface, Drive Safe and Unknown Number. I looked at the editing, camera work, mise en scene, sound and answered four evaluation questions based on what made the film

Horror Film

• effective, what key conventions were used, what I would consider using in my own film from these films as well as the suggestions I would make to improve the films. With editing I found that insert shots were used as were credits. Therefore, our final film followed the traditional film conventions of having the film title presented in the beginning of

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• the film and then the credits at the end of the film. We also used an insert shot of the glass of water falling. This was as, we felt it would be an indicator of the plot turning increasingly serious and build tension. Furthermore, with the camera work in the 3 films I analysed, I discovered that point of view shots, close ups, medium close ups,

Horror Film

• establishing shots and over-the-should shots were used during the film to either show an object or person of significance or a particular aspect that the directors and producers wanted you as a viewer to acknowledge, Within our film, we used close-ups of the scary doll to push the fact that it was an object of importance and caused the youngest

Horror Film

• daughter to get possessed. As well as, of the daughters face yo show that she is possessed and mothers disapproving facial expression towards the doll, An establishing shot of the house we used, was also added into our film to set the scene for the viewers. In regards to mise en scene (lighting, costume/make-up, props, setting etc.), in the 3 films I

Horror Film

• seen in society. Of course, this is as dark colours, like black, connote evil. In our film, we decided to have the mother dressed in a cardigan and a pink top, as pink is typically seen as 'girly'. This would represent femininity and motherhood, which women are stereo typically associated with in society. We also dressed the father in a blue jumper,

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• which is a typical 'boy' colour which is meant to represent masculinity. Additionally, the teenage daughter wore clothes that we would associate with teenagers, for example a khaki bomber jacket, while the youngest daughter wore a floral dress that we would expect a little girl to be wearing. These outfit choices were chosen so we could make it clear to the audience who is who in

Horror Film

• the family by their clothes. The props used in the 3 films, were usually weapons such as knives or things such as fake blood, a phone, clock and a chess piece. In short films, I found that there are not usually very many props unless they are very significant. Therefore, our film used minimal props, that included a scary doll, backpacks/rucksacks and phones.

Horror Film

• These were important to show we had just moved in, as the doll was the main purpose of the film and to introduce the next-door neighbour to the audience to lead to the ending in which he discovers the doll, leading to the sudden ending of the film. When it came to sound in the 3 short films I analysed, I found that they all did not have much, or no dialogue at

Horror Film

• all. This is something which we had to go against, as our plot consisted of a family moving into a new house and having the youngest daughter getting possessed by her new-found doll. Meaning that, the number of characters and the fact they were a family meant there had to be quite a bit of dialogue to show the parents' disapproval and apprehensiveness towards the doll.

Horror Film

• Whereas, we used the ideas of the non-diegetic sound in our film, as we had sudden thumps to create jump scares and with diegetic sound we used a scream coming from the mother but at the end we used another one, this time insinuating evil is coming once again. In the scene with the daughter walking down the stairs, we used non-diegetic chiming sounds and other creepy effects, which were conventions other short horror films used.

Horror Film Review

• In reference to my review, I analysed 3 double page spread reviews. These were for different genres, for instance romance, fantasy/action and paranormal horror. From research, I discovered that some reviews were done on one page while others took up two pages. After attempting to create a

Horror Film Review

• review on one side, I decided it did not look very appealing displayed in this way. Thus, I decided to create my review as a double page spread instead. However, I used the display of the horror review as a guideline to how to design the page and what features to add. For instance, I used a border around the review, added page numbers, put the

Horror Film Review

• name of the magazine in the footer, added some information of the film (such as the running time etc.) and used the idea of making a 'the verdict' heading. With the colours that were used, they either used light blue, white or filled the page with the main image and I challenged this as I decided to use a plain black background but with my main images placed over it. This was as,

Horror Film Review

• I thought it looked better this way with the border I had and the images I used would not have left enough space for a lot of text as they would've taken up most of the double page spread if I had chosen them. I also used two images, which the reviews I analysed did not do, but did this because I believed the review looked too plain without the second picture and too consumed in text.