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IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCTS DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL
MEDIA PRODUCTS?
When creating our teaser trailer we looked at other
films so we could follow the correct conventions.
We looked at…
‘House At The End of The
Street’
TITLES
When creating the titles for our teaser trailer, we
had to look at various aspects of the titles they used
in House At the End of The Street. The main
conventions for titles we looked at included:
COLOUR
FONT
SIZE
This was our first creation for our title. As you can
see it follows the conventions very similarly to House
at the End of the street.
This is our finished title…..
We used similar phrases in our teaser trailer, as
shown in our real media text. We used very similar
font and background to our real media text.
FINAL DECISION
As you can see we have changed the title dramatically from what we first
had created. We have kept with the same colour scheme, which is yellow,
but every other convention to the ‘House at the end of the street’ has
changed. The font of the title was inspired from ‘Inception’, this is
because it was a film we researched at the beginning of creating our
teaser trailer. We found that this title had a better ‘thriller’ feel to it. The
size of the font has also changed by making the letters further apart and
making the font smaller. The House at the End of the street title inspired
our title initially , through the colour. This deep yellow colour was used in
all 3 elements and therefore helped us create our brand image.
SETTING
The setting of our teaser trailer was very similar to
our real media text. Both are set in a house,
surrounded by a wooded area.
On the Left is our real media text, on the right is
our teaser trailer.
This shows stereotypical symbols of a thriller, as a
wooded, dark, secluded area is known for having a
scary aspect in it. This lets our audience know what
genre our teaser trailer is and where our film is set.
Both our real media text and our teaser trailer
establish the setting very early on in the teaser
trailer.
COSTUME
In our teaser trailer we had the main characters in
simple, casual clothing to show the realistic aspect
of our teaser trailer. No outrageous costumes were
used in our teaser trailer, so it would not give away
any clues of the plot to the audience.
The ‘murderer’ worn dark clothing throughout the
teaser trailer to not make him stand out. Wearing
dark clothing symbolises a dark era about the
persons personality. This went along with our real
media text as the all characters wore casual
clothing, but the character the audience are
suspicious of wore darker clothing. We also used a
policeman to show that a character was being
arrested, this was shown effectively through no
dialogue.
GENRE OF OUR TRAILER
Our teaser trailer is a thriller. We chose to make a
thriller teaser trailer as we thought it was easier to
follow the conventions of real media text. Our film is
aimed at people ages 15 and above, but our target
market is young adults. We feel people older
wouldn’t be as interested in the film as younger
people. Our real media text is obviously the same
genre and also the same age rating.
MAGAZINE
We chose Empire Magazine, as it advertises mainly
thriller films. Even though our real media text was
not advertised in this magazine we felt it was the
best idea to use it. We followed the conventions of
different Empire Magazine covers to make ours look
realistic. We followed the colour scheme, fonts and
images.
POSTER
For our poster we followed the conventions of 2 different House
at the End of The Street posters. From the images we had taken
for our poster we felt it was necessary to combine the two to
create our poster. The same font was used, so the audience could
recognise our brand. An image of the main character on the left
in our poster but on the right in our real media text. We followed
the convention of having the image of the house on the poster
too. We also have a billing block in our poster which is the same
for our real media text.
OVERALL
I feel we followed the conventions very well in all three aspects of our
brand.
For our teaser trailer, costume, setting and titles were used effectively
and were similar to our real media text. This is good because it shows we
have researched our real media text well.
For our magazine cover we followed the conventions exactly to make sure
the cover looks realistic. The same title of ‘Deception’ was used here also.
For our poster we also followed the conventions well but I felt the font for
all of the writing could have looked better and the image of the character
needed to blend into the background better.