The document discusses how the media product uses and develops conventions of real media forms. It describes researching the thriller film Split to help develop the plot and learn how to effectively edit a trailer with music, camera angles, and lighting. It also discusses researching other film posters like Get Out for inspiration and creating 3 poster concepts before choosing one. Finally, it discusses researching magazine covers and choosing to emulate the Scream magazine for its suitability to thrillers, and including standard elements like masthead and images in the mock magazine cover created.

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

2. Format Conventions – Teaser Trailer
As a group we thoroughly discussed what we was going to do for our
teaser trailer, constantly coming up with different ideas. When we
eventually decided on doing a psychological thriller and figuring out
most of the plot, we done some research on other trailers of the
same genre to try and help us develop our plot that we’d already
thought of. This was because we wanted to add in some common
conventions of this genre so that the genre of the film is clearly
shown to the audience. Looking at other trailers help us to develop
our ideas and add more detail to the plot of our film.

3. Format Conventions – Teaser Trailer
Split
Split was one of the films we researched into, and was the main one
we used to get inspiration from as we wanted to create a similar
plot to this film which is about the main character who having a
split personality which is what we tried to bring into our film plot.
We wanted to bring in the psychological part of our thriller by
changing the personality of our main and focusing on that as a main
part of our film. Watching the trailer for Split helped us see what a
trailer of this genre should look like as it’s an effective trailer which
entices their audience to want to go and watch the movie. It also
shows exactly what genre it is. Furthermore, the film helped us on
how to effectively edit our trailer by giving us an understanding of
what soundtrack we should us and how we could match our on
screen action with the music to create and build up tension. As well
as this it showed us how we could effectively use transitions,
sounds, camera angles and lighting to help make our trailer look
professional.

4. Format Conventions – Teaser Trailer
Link to our final product:
https://youtu.be/uqBfdupPzcY

5. Poster
We wanted to create a professional looking poster
that would stand out to our target audience and
show the genre of the film. As well as this we
wanted to entice people to watch the film just by
them seeing the poster so it was important that we
made in bold and stand out. We researched other
film posters to get an idea of what ours should look
like and what we could add to our poster to make it
look professional. The thriller film ‘Get Out’ was one
of our favourite posters as we liked the split down
the middle of the posters, as well as the black and
white colour scheme. We also liked how it was very
simplistic and didn’t have too much on it. We took
inspiration from this and tried to create a similar our
of our own for our first draft.

6. Poster
We created 3 different
posters concepts and had to
choose one as our final
product. We liked the look of
all 3, however we ended up
choosing the poster in the
middle as our poster.

7. Magazine cover
We made sure we researched many different film magazine
covers to get an understanding of what conventions are often
include and what we needed to ensure we had in ours. We then
tried to find magazines which our genre of film would likely
appear on and the magazine which we thought was most
suitable to our film was the Scream magazine. This magazine
usually has horror films promoted on it as well as some thrillers.
We decided to use this magazine brand for our cover as it’s an
already existing brand which also suits the genre of film that
we’d created. We made sure we included all conventions of a
magazine cover such as the masthead, headline, slogan, contact
details, barcode, images, as well as the price and info.

8. Magazine cover
We made sure we planned out how we intended our final
magazine cover would look like by creating different cover
drafts where we’d put different ideas into each one as examples
of what our overall one could look like. We used Photoshop to
create and edit all our draft images as well as the overall
image. We eventually came to a decision on how we wanted the
magazine to look. Adam and Harry were in charge of creating
the final design for the magazine cover and used the still shots
which we got from our filming day to include in the magazine
cover. All common conventions of a magazine cover were
included.