The student's media product uses conventions of thriller and horror movie trailers through mysterious and tension-building techniques. Examples given are blank screens at the end of the trailer from Paranormal Activity and adding static effects seen in The Pact trailer. Titles and typography in the student's teaser trailer were influenced by successful films like Insidious and The Pact to convey the psychological thriller genre. Shots and composition of the movie poster also took influences from The Pact and Safe House.

1. EVALUATION
QUESTION 1
Georgia Ray

2. IN WHAT WAY S DOES
YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
USE, DEVELOP OR
CHALLENGE FORMS AND
CONVENTIONS OF REAL
MEDIA PRODUCTS?

3. 1.
 Our teaser trailer is enigmatic and mysterious throughout.
Meaning that the shots we have used and the juxtaposition
when editing them creates a mysterious feel of a
psychological thriller. An example of this in action can be
seen in the dramatic „blank‟ screens at the end of the trailer
which make the last shot tension-building and mysterious.

4. CONTINUED…
 This form of tension building can be seen in the
majority of thriller/horror teaser trailers as a way to grab
the audiences attention.
 One teaser trailer that uses this well is Paranormal
Activity (1, 2 and 3), these all have blank areas interposed
within the shots during the editing process to create this
foreboding atmosphere.

5. 2.
 In the editing process we have added effects such as
static, which is used in The Pacts teaser trailer, to give a
foreboding atmosphere to the shots. The audience would
view this as foreboding because the image of static is used
particularly in horror or thriller genres. Connotations of
static include signal failures or broken appliances etc. all of
which give the impression something is wrong.

6. CONTINUED…
As well as The Pact, other thriller/horror
teaser trailers use the same static technique.
The Paranormal Activity series of films is well-
known for using these successfully, as
demonstrated on the next slide.

7. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
STILL

8. THE PACT STILL

9. 3.
 The titles in our teaser trailer have been heavily influenced by
the titles on horror/thriller/psychological films such as Insidious
and The Pact. We know these are successful films in their genre and
so can assume that their titles and typography work to connote their
genre well. We took the colours of the insidious poster, black, white
and red and paired it with the font style of The Pact‟s poster which
is simple but bold. This has resulted in us having titles that greatly
convey our genre.

10. CONTINUED…
As well as The Pact, There was also the Safe
House which influenced us heavily particularly
in developing ideas for the typography and
composition of our poster. The shots of which
will be shown on the next slide.

11. THE PACT POSTER
Simple The “Pact” is
text, so as extremely
not to detract bold, grabbin
attention g the
from the audiences
image, which attention
is the main towards that
focus. word rather
than the
“The”.

12. SAFE HOUSE POSTER
Simple bold Very typical
text, holds the thriller/horror
audiences conventions
attention, but the with regard to
central placement colour theme
means it is the this shows the
focus of the audience what
poster rather than genre this film
the image, unlike is.
the pact‟s poster.

13. GEORGIA RAY