The document discusses a student's film called "The Possession" and how it develops conventions of horror movies. Some key elements included in the film are: newspaper articles that hint at strange events, using an innocent character who becomes possessed, and including dark colors and blood imagery in the poster to match the film's tone. The student found creating a film review challenging but drew inspiration from real horror movie reviews that included plot summaries and film stills. The film also challenges some conventions by not setting the story in a huge, empty house, but in a normal home on a busy street.

1. Question 1Question 1
In what ways does your media use, develop or challengeIn what ways does your media use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media productsforms and conventions of real media products

2. FilmFilm
The film that we had created which was called ‘The Possession’ link into my research as I had
found out that most successful horror movies are based around the genre of psychological
or has some sort of possession and demonic feature. Eg; The Conjuring.
By watching this film right at the beginning of my research journey, I found
out that using a character who is supposed to be innocent who ends up
being possessed is an effective way of enticing the audience, and getting
them scared.

3. In this scene of the film, we decided to add in newspaper articles as in most of the horror
films that had been watched, there was always some sort of object that gives a clue to what
is happening, or even gets the audience questioning what the significance of that certain
object is. In this case, we used newspaper articles.
(Play from 0.34) Here is an example
from The Conjuring. 3am is the
devil’s hour, therefore when it hits
3am, strange things begin to
happen. This is some sort of clue
that there is something not right
with the house.

4. At first, this innocent teenager is dared to go into a
house by his friends. However, this is the exact same
character who is possessed.
We decided to use an innocent person who get’s
possessed as most films show that also innocent
people can get into deep trouble. No matter how brave,
Innocent or young you are, you may still be targeted.
Innocent and happy
POSSESSED.
(same girl)

5. Horror PosterHorror PosterMy horror poster consisted of using dark and
gloomy colours. This was used as I was to use bright
yellows, it wouldn’t have matched the film, and it
would have given the wrong impression of the film. Red and
black seems to be the most popular colours for a horror poster.
When researching real existing horror posters, I could clearly see
that all dark and dull colours were used. Only a minority of
horror posters used bright colours. I decided to use the colour red mostly as in
the film you can see blood, and I wanted to show that in the poster by using
red. Also the connotation with red is evil, devil and blood.
These posters were my inspiration
while creating my own poster.

6. ReviewReview
Creating my review was a little harder. I found this harder as most reviews on film are on
websites such as IMDB or ROTTEN TOMATOES. However, I had found a horror film review but
I was not keen on the layout. But I had got an idea of what a horror film review consisted of.
Most of the reviews that I had researched were not of the horror genre, however it still gave me
an idea of how I wanted my review to look like.
Most reviews that I had seen had the
plot summary and also pictures of the actual
film. A lot of the film reviews had film spoilers.

7. Most horror films are based in a happy family home, where they have moved in and the
house is lovely and big.
However, we decided to challenge this and used a house that was in a ‘normal’ neighbourhood
and a house that already had signs of not to go in.
This was challenged as the house in our film was not HUGE, it didn’t look old and scary, no one
was living inside the house and also the house was on a road where it is always busy.
Insidious
Happy family, big house, new
house.
Our film ‘The Possession’
Police tape, a group of friends and not
a big house for sale or been sold.