This document discusses the conventions used in a student's media project in the genre of psychological horror. The conventions included settings in a classroom, technical codes like shot types and framing, iconography like blood and weapons, villains like stalkers and monsters, and props like knives and guns. Character types included two boys and two girls as teenagers often killed in horror. Special effects and makeup were not used to keep the project more realistic and less time-consuming.

1. Question1: In my media project my genre is
horror. My sub genre is psychological
horror. The conventions I have used are:
Settings – the classroom, technical codes –
shot type and frame work, iconography -
visual effects such as blood, the use of
weapons, the use of villains - such as
stalkers, monsters, werewolves, vampires,
etc. The use of binary opposition, the use of
props-such as weapons in the form of
knives, guns, flame throwers and the use of
character types – two boys and two girls,
the teenagers that are always killed.
Furthermore the conventions that have not
been used are special effects/make up – I
am not using this convention as it adds too
much and takes up too much time. I want to
keep things as normal as possible.