An example of a D grade genre investigation (print) for the WJEC GCSE Media

1. INVESTIGATION INTO HOW THE POSTER FOR
JENIFER'S BODY CONFORMS TO OR CHALLENGE
THE GENRE CONVENTION OF HORROR
By Gabriel white

2. WHAT I AM GOING TO
I will investigate how successful Jenifer's body is as a horror
poster. I will do this by looking at audience expectations of horror
and the success of the film and finally annotate the poster Jenifer's
body. And I will compare it to the other horror posters that I will
be analysis.

3. AUDIENCE EXPECTATION OF
HORROR FILMS
In Jenifer's body people want to see suspense and a film simple to follow
not hard to. They also would wont to see murder/death The audience that
would go and see this would be teenagers and people in there 20s and
they would want it to be visually frightening for the audience. And if it has
a good tagline that makes the film sound interesting then people will be
more interesting would want to find out about the film.

4. THE PRODUCTION AND SUCCESS OF
JENIFER'S BODY
Jenifer's body written by Diablo Cody and directed
by Karyn Kusama.Jenifers body had lackluster
performance at the opening weekend at the
American box office but in the end it made double
its budget in box office money. the horror, comic
premise for "failing to be either funny or scary
enough to satisfy“. Cinema Score gave the film a
C- grade on a scale of A to F c is most probably a 3
star.

5. THE HYPOTHESES OF JENIFERS
BODY
I think that Jenifer's body challenges the horror convention, because of the
poster which shows Jennifer as a school girl sitting on a American desk
and behind her on the chalk board says hell yes! it doesn't show much that
it is horror there is a couple of thing that gives a clue to weather it’s a
horror or comedy there is hand sticking out of the desk and the tag line as
she’s evil… and not just high school evil… and the title is in capital letters in
red at he bottom of the poster.

6. WHAT NARRATIVE
DOES JENNIFER'S
BODY POSTER
CONVEY
Jennifer's body has a toderov narrative to extent .
In Jennifer's body it will start of all happy and everyone is going about there day and then
something bad happens in the middle of the film and then in most cases it gradually gets better
and there's a happy ending.
In my opinion Jenifer's body has defiantly got the toderov narrative because of how the story
begins and ends .
The dilemma in Jenifer's body is when Jenifer turns up to needy house and through up dark
alien blood and with blood all over her face after the fire at the local pub.

7. The poster has put the name of the
film at the bottom of the poster the
title is in blood red in capital letters.
Jenifer is in the centre
of the poster witch
suggest they want you
to focus on her mainly
first and not what's
around here.
Were Jenifer is
sitting she is sitting
on a desk that has
a hand poking out
of the desk
On the board it says
HELL YES in capital
letters witch suggest it
is very comical
At the bottom of the poster
there is R witch is the MPAA
rating meaning it unsuitable
for children.
Because this is a horror poster but bit
challenges the horror theme because news ally
monsters are ugly and not appealing to the
audience but Jenifer does not look like a villain
she looks incident and because she is weraring
a normal high school cloths
The background for this poster
very dull almost grey and black
with warn down floor and walls

8. In this poster they have made lots off cabins on
top off each other and it makes you think why is
there cabins on each other I think that I makes
you think and imagine weather its got something
to do in the actual film it self
The CABIN IN THE WOODS title is in
capitals and it looks like scratched woods
witch suggest that it is a horror and
someone is going to die
On this poster in the
background its not just white
its got faded trees in the
background witch suggest
that it is in the woods.
At the bottom there is a review
saying “ ground-breaking and
insanely enjoyable a game
changer”.

9. The title is the return and it is
slightly blurred witch makes it
look scary and more horror
The letter R is flipped and its
turning towards you. Which as
a good effect
In the centre there is and eye and the eye
looks like someone that is blind and it
that eye there is a hand is pressed up
against the eye it looks like its trying to
escape witch could mean it’s a horror
On this poster the slogan is the past
never dies it kills the slogan is very dark
and it defiantly shows that it
is a horror movie.
Sarah Gellar is very famous due to starring in
supernatural thriller-horrors so therefore this will
attract fans of that genre