The media product uses conventions of the psychological horror genre by focusing on creating horror through ambiguity and what the viewer imagines rather than explicit scenes. Silences are used to keep the audience on edge about what may appear. While some scenes use broad daylight, others use little lighting, challenging conventions. The villain's identity is kept ambiguous, similar to conventions. The trailer is ambiguous without giving away the plot, using an eerie soundtrack in line with conventions, but differs by relying on text rather than narration to convey the story. The magazine and film poster both keep to horror genre conventions through their visual styles and topics, but the magazine title references another publication.

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

2. My media product uses conventions of the horror
genre, the psychological horror genre as it is more
focused on the viewer creating the horror in their
mind rather than on the screen. My product uses
deliberate silences to keep the audience in a nervous
position as they are unsure of what will appear
next, for example a jumpscare or a quiet scene.
Trailer

3. My horror is also different to the typical horror genre
as there is a variety of lighting used as some scenes
were filmed in broad daylight while others were
filmed in the dark with very little lighting at all. The
villain keeps with the conventional horror genre as
there is an enigma surrounding them, we don’t see
very little of what he looks like and it is unclear
whether he is the main villain or whether he is simply
a partner of the main villain.
Trailer

4. The trailer is very ambiguous which fits in with other
trailers as you don’t want to give away much of the
plot for the film. The soundtrack used is in line with
the horror genre as it was very eerie, and fit in with
what was going on the screen with the text that
appeared. Some horror films have some form of
narration to explain what is going on, this sometimes
comes from a character in the film or a narrator.
Trailer

5. In my trailer there was no such narration used, only
text to convey a little about the next scene, this
makes my trailer different to most of the horror
trailers I have watched online as most did not rely on
text to convey parts of the story.
Trailer

6. My magazine relates to the movie genre as its designs
was based off of a Total Film magazine, the name
Total Horror implied that it was almost a spinoff of
the magazine series. The photo used has low key
lighting this fits in with the horror genre as the horror
genre usually is based around darkness and the
unknown. It keeps in theme with the horror genre as
it features horror personnel such as Jack
Nicholson, and talks about horror films such as The
Shining and SAW.
Magazine

7. My film poster uses conventions of the horror genre
as it is based on a horror film Eden Lake, the picture
used is of my main star holding a candle in a dimly
light room, this is very fitting for the horror genre as it
creates a sense of fear as to why she is alone in the
dark but also her facial expression can be seen as
making us wonder if she has gone as crazy as those
who are trying to kill her.
Film Poster