Evaluation Part 1

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

Our media product uses conventions of real media products, for our teaser trailer we have done research into various trailer such as Halloween 2, Drag me to hell and The Orphan this helped us gain an understanding of what we needed to deliver in our trailer. One of the conventions we are going to use is the use of long drawn out sounds and piano style music, these are traditionally used in lots of horror films, a very famous example of this is John Carpenters Halloween. Also the tempo of the music in man horror trailer starts off slow and then builds to increase the tension of the trailer. Like many horror trailer alot of the scenes we use will be in a dark setting late at night, this helps give a more typically horror feel as you cannot see everything clearly. At the beginning of our trailer we use grey scale over the shots to give a feel that these clips are a past event. We got the idea to do this from the trailer for Halloween 2.

At the start of the media task me and my partner decided on doing a short film originally and did lots of research into them, but as we got further into the task we though we could create a better impact if we made a teaser trailer. The research into short films helped us in our teaser trailer. We found that most of the short films we watched had a twist at the end and we thought this was very effective so we have incorporated this into our trailer.

One of the most influential films we watched was dead mans shoes by Shane meadows. this was the film which gave us the idea for the final twist at the end and also the use of a mask to cover the face of the killer and make him seem more menacing.

 Another way in which we will use conventions from real media products is with props and mise-en-scene. In our trailer there is the use of a large kitchen knife much like the one used in Halloween.

In many of the horror trailers that i watched i noticed they used flashes of black or white in a pulse like motion. We have decided to use flashes to white at the start of the trailer because they look very effective and as we've only used them over the antagonist it not only helps identify him to the audience but also gives his appearance on screen more impact.