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

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

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Inspiration for my trailer: .

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what I found out from my research

From my research I found out the following things:• That my target audience would like a horror movie.• Most of the effective horrors are done hand held• I then researched some Handheld horrors: Peeping tom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwNMeCgnFpU clover field:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSFCV4uATpI The Blair Witch Project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51QgOHrCj0I discussed which shots were effective within each of these trailers to give me some insight into the shots I could use for my trailer and I also commented on how hand held cameras have an impact on the trailer.

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the theory of trailers

Trailers were made for advertisement purposes in order for the film makers to promote the film before it comes out and it will give them a rough idea whether people will like the film or not. Or whether it targets a niche audience.

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Conventions of my trailerI personally think my trailer challenges and is similar to other conventions with in the media world for example in my trailer I took a lot inspiration from the film Eden lake where it was based is forest/ field area. A lot of my film was filmed by handheld which I took this element from the film Blair witch project. Although it does challenge other movie trailer because it has quite a confusing story line the plot is a lot different to other conventional horror films. Some of the shots especially the panning shot at the end is very different because what I did was I made this shot go faster so it makes the audience feel disorientated And also ending blankly with a loud scream is also very different as normally the end shot of horror trailers is there climax point. I did this because I want people to think what happens for that girl to scream like she did so the audience will go and see my trailer.

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shots in my trailer:

Close-up of Alice

Canted angle of feet Back shot of Alice

Medium shot of push

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Inspiration for ancillary textsThe Friday the 13th movie poster was the inspiration my movie poster I like how the whole of the man can been seen, I also like the writing underneath the title.

The magazine I took inspiration from was this empire Magazine. I used the magazine name empire and the massive preview special but I changed the writing to how I wanted it. This magazine was inspirational to and stood out because of the picture and the font of the writing.

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Research For my research I looked at two magazines:• Empire- is very simple, but very effective, I like the fact they listed film. The font is

simple but readable which is what you want for a magazine • Total film – this magazine seemed to be more arty and it also has a clear colour

scheme which I would like to see in my magazine.

Font

Arty

BlueWhitered

Colour scheme

Good clear image

Bar code found on all

magazines.

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For my research of movie posters I looked at the following movie posters: • Blair Witch Project- the Blair witch project poster was very simple but is very

effective because of the back drop of the forest and the close-up of the girls eyes looking terrified. It is very different from other horror movie posters because of the writing in the middle (telling us about the background of the story.)

• Friday the 13th – the Friday the 13th movie poster is the one that I based mine around because I really like the whole image of the poster the full image of the person, and I used this effect on mine. I also placed my title at the bottom like the Friday 13th poster so you can see the full image.

• Prom Night -The prom night poster is very arty and the emphasises the Word prom in the title with the image of the sparkly tiara.

• The ring 2 –the ring two emphasises the word ring because the shape in the background is of a ring and the image of the girl with the hair in front of her face it make it remain unknown what she looks like.

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Conventions of ancillary texts

For ancillary texts I had inspiration from empire magazine and i copied some of the features from the magazine but changed the writing and the main picture.

For my movie poster it was kind of similar to the Friday 13th poster I kind of used the full image like on that poster and I used the same kind of style and format, but making mine black and white which is very different to conventional horror movie posters.