1. Task What did you learn from this? How will you use this in your own construction
task?
Trailer analyses From looking at a large variety of different horror
trailers this has allowed me to look at the different
generic conventions that are used within the horror
genre and even more specifically what is within the
horror trailers.
From looking at the different horror trailer this has
made me think when making my horror trailer I
thought of the different generic conventions within
shots, sounds, mise-en-scene and editing to make sure
that to a certain degree I am making sure that it fits in
with the genre.
Titles analyses From looking at the different title that are used within
my work I have learned that the titles are often placed
central, along with the use of direct address towards
the audience within the titles.
From looking at different titles I have used direct
address within the titles along with placing them
central so they can be seen.
Research into potential target audience From this I have learned that the male audience are the
typical gender who are going to be interested in the
horror genre. I have also come to the conclusion how
the social class that would be interested within my
horror genre would be classes C1 and bellow.
From the audience research I saw how I would have to
make sure that my work applied to the typical
audience in order for it to be successful.
In order to make sure I gained the male audience I
stuck to the stereotypical characters. To try and gain
the other classes above C1 I have challenged some of
the conventions in order to create mystery that they
will want to try and figure out.
Questionnaire on storyboard I learned what my audience like about our ideas for the
trailer, what they think either will or won’t work and
what will need to be changed.
It highlighted the fact that what we had decided to do
for our trailer was good as all of the questionnaires
came out positive.
Risk Assessment What the different risks could be when doing out
recording.
When recording we will use the risk assessment in
order to make sure that we don’t harm ourselves in
the recording process.
Conventional locations Many locations used within the typical horror genre are I used this within my work as we recorded allot of our
2. isolated areas, big houses, cabins and the woods. work within a woods and in isolated locations in order
to fit the typical conventions.
Conventional props Use of murder weapons usually knifes. Masks in order
to hide the identity the bad person.
I decided not to use the knife as I wanted to change
some of the conventions and create a mystery.
However I did use the mask as I wanted to hide the
identity of the antagonist.
Conventional actors Male and female characters that usually oppose each
other. Weak vs strong. Usually young characters.
I used the typical characters that I identified as the
typical conventions as I didn’t want to break the
generic convention.
Conventional costumes Antagonist- usually dark clothing that doesn’t give away
anything about the character.
Protagonist- normal day time clothing.
Stuck to the convention as I wanted to make sure that
my horror trailer was traditional.
Magazine analyses From look at a large amount of different types of
magazines I was able to identify the typical conventions
of layout/ page design along with the need for variety in
texts and font size. I have also seen how images are
used within a magazine along with the use of direct
address.
To make sure that my magazine I used all the typical
conventions that I identified within my analysis. When
making my magazine I made sure that I placed the title
at the top central in a large font to make sure that it
easy to be seen. I also used a variety of different fonts
as well as font’s sizes. With my main image I also made
sure that I used direct address as well as making it big
enough to show that it is the main feature of the
magazine.
Film poster analyses From looking a range of different horror film posters I
have be able to identify the typical conventions that are
used within the poster. Such as layout/page design
along with the use of images and text.
When making my own poster I will be using everything
that I have learned from looking at all the different
posters that I analysed. Within my poster I used a good
main image that I then framed and edited on
Photoshop in order to make it look realistic and good.
