A2 Media Studies evaluation

By Shannon Alli

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

real media products?My media products are quite conventional as it stays within the traditional horror roles. I used young actors, which came across through the mise en scene; costume was a key way to portray young characters as well as language.

My actors wore clothing, which I felt fitted the lasted trend for example my characters wore a casual clothing like jeans, a jacket ,and an snood fits the tend of casual clothing nowadays.

Screen shot of saw a girl is wear a casual purple dress.

In addition to this the use of informal language implies to the audience that that characters are young. Using young actors stays within the traditional ways of horror as seen in my teaser trailer research most of characters were young adults.

The key information including – director, tagline and date of film coming to cinema. All of the teasers trailers I look at didn’t inform the viewers about whom the actors were and if they starred in any other films.

Based on this research I used the same type of format because it allow me to give out key information and as I’m not a professional director who doesn’t have famous actors that particular information wasn’t necessary as seen in other teaser trailers.

In addition to this looking at other teaser trailers within the genre of horror the majority didn’t use any voice over’s but used text instead as a way of informing the viewers about key information. I felt by using text it was a way for me to conform to the conventions.

I tried to stay within the genre of horror by trying to make my photo itself look quite unnatural .

However I didn’t conform to the element of having background I which relates to the film itself because I wanted the film poster to be simple but powerful.

The use of colours I used is seen to be quite conventional , through research the use of a light subtle colours with a quite a dark picture create quite an eerie look.

Despite creating my own magazine coverI did try and use the same type of elements typical magazine covers use. However I would say magazine cover is more simple as there is less information on the cover.

As seen in my research the master head is quite bright or quite bold so the use of blue I felt was a good way for my magazine cover to stay with the conventions.

Music was a good way to keep within convention. For my teaser I use music from a site called Jamendo as it is a site where you use other people music copyright free.I use a quite up beat eerie soundtrack because I wanted to relate my target audience.

In my first teaser trailer draft I use a dancehall track as well as the eerie soundtrack. However I felt it didn't t work so by using this soundtrack I felt I could still relate to my target audience

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