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

This is the image we chose for the start of our trailer, it think it's important to begin with the certificate so that the viewer of the trailer is given the correct information about what is about to be seen, what the sort of target audience is to be expected and can almost get themselves ready to watch the trailer but making sure there watching the screen (where ever it may be) and sitting comfortably. Our reason for using the green certificate banner is because when researching horror films, most of the film companies used it, it's popular and recognisable.

When discussing camera angles and editing for the trailer it was clear the best option to get an effective trailer would to edit in quick, snappy clips and film at dramatic camera angles, using mainly close ups throughout. Doing this also can get a lot of the story in by giving clues, but not by showing too much of the actual film. We discussed and tried other techniques also but we went for the idea we originally had, although some other changes were made to the editing aspect, like after viewing some clips we decided they would look better in slow motion, to create a more dramatic, important feel to that particular clip.

We made the risky decision of covering the main title with the picture, but we came to the conclusion that the magazine would have already had issues out, so it would already be a well known film magazine. There for people would already recognise the title whether it were covered slightly or not. In some cases the buyers of the magazines will have had there eye drawn to the pictures or text if it is of particular interest to them whether they are a frequent buyer of that magazine or not. So this is another positive reason for having the picture over the top of the main title.

 

 

 

It took a lot of re-arranging to get the look we wanted for our poster, I wanted the bottom of the picture to be the main focus and use more of the top part of the picture to be the plain background to add text to. But during the editing we found there was too much text to all be gathered at the top which caused it to look messy. We have followed the forms by having all the credits at the bottom of the poster. The left leg is bent almost in a creepy looking way which causes the very centre of the picture to be mostly empty, this means looking at the picture you look else where. We have successfully made the viewer view the top first were the skirt and title are seen and follows the bat and right leg down to the blood and other details in black.