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1. Evaluation: Q1
In what ways does your media product,
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?

2. This is our horror magazine promoting our film that we have
created, when creating this magazine we had to consider,
how we would conform to the typical conventions of a
horror magazine: This includes parts such as the colour
scheme, main image, and Typography.
We used this Typography (Face Your Fears) in
all of our media products to create synergy and
consistency between them, this makes each
product easy to link together for the target
audience.
The Production Logo appears in all three
media texts, this is using media
convergence to advertise the company.
Here we used media convergence to advertise a
competition giving readers the chance to win free tickets to
Thorpe park “fright night” this follows in consistency with
the horror theme and could help to draw some people into
taking part. This adheres to media conventions.
Here we have used already existing media texts draw
people into read the magazine as if they have previously
seen any of these films and enjoyed then then this could
make them want to watch our featured film.

3. This is our Theatrical Horror poster that advertises our
horror film “the forgotten” We kept the colour schemes
and typography all the same in all 3 media texts using
synergy and media convergence to draw the audience in.
The Mask (Props) appears present in all 3 texts,
here we are using mis-en-scene to create a link
between all of our media products.
This is a billing board that we created for our horror poster, it lists the name of all the actors and main
production team. This adheres to the conventions of horror products as on majority of horror posters a
billing block will be present
This quote “MASKS HIDE MORE THAN JUST FACES” can be
seen throughout all three of our media products, this can
create fear or tension for the audience is also used
consistency to create another link between the products.
This is usually another typical convection that can appear on
magazines, posters and trailer, by saying COMING 2014 or
TRAILER OUT NOW but not actually giving a specific date the
production company are making the audience more interested
in the film. This could lead them to purchase other products
relation to the film

4. Here our Production logo is present at the start of our horror trailer
this adheres to the typical conventions of horror products as the
majority of horror trailers will have the production logo featured
somewhere in it.
Remote locations such as woods,
forests and abandoned houses are
often seen in horror trailers, it is the
fear of the unknown when they are
in an unfamiliar place that scares
the audience when watching horror
films that contain these conventions
In this scene we become aware
that the quality of the image
becomes blurry and grainy this
is a typical convention as seen
in other horror films such as
the Blair witch project and
paranormal activity (Shown to
the right) . It also gives the
feeling of the camera being
handheld so you are seeing the
scene through someone else's
point of view.
This scene shows one of the characters, in
front of a mirror, with there hands in front of
there face, this creates suspense and fear
because this scene can become present in
many horror trailers as the character cannot
see the antagonist, and the audience do not
know what is going to happen to this
character.
This Final Scene uses the
convention where the
audience think it is over
and then something
happens to spike fear.