This is my evaluation answer

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

2. For my trailer, I’ve followed conventions all the way throughout. I decided not to develop or
challenge, because I wanted to stick to a conventional trailer as it is proven to work. At the
beginning, I included a distribution title, which is used in every film trailer. The narrative of the
trailer is very conventional for a teen drama. This is in terms of the struggle, which is the
disruption in the film. We see this through the use of different camera shots showing Violet
looking in the mirror and seeing blood. This makes the audience suspense as they wonder
what is wrong with her. I’ve also used informal font throughout the trailer. This allows me to
directly address the right audience, as the audience that I am targeting are younger. This is a
common convention used in teen drama trailers. Examples of this are in ‘Perks of being a
Wallflower’ and ‘Me, Earl and the dying girl’. These are where I took inspirations from. The use
of colour with the font has been chosen with teen drama genre in mind. I chose light pastel
colours to draw the audience in, because the colours imply that the film is fun. I’ve created
suspense in the trailer for the audience, which is very common in this genre of trailers. I’ve
done this by including a whole range of emotions in different order. This makes the audience
more on edge trying to figure out what really happens, but also shows that the film is happy as
well as sad. Comedy is a typical emotion show in in teen dramas, as they try to relate to the
audience and entice them in. If I could change anything about the film trailer, I would try to
challenge myself a lot more and include things that aren’t typically seen. This would make it a
much harder challenge to try and think of ways to develop and change the conventions, and
could make the trailer a bit better.

3. The film poster I created, I have developed conventions much more,
compared to my trailer. The first thing that I did was develop the
billing block. After placing the main image on the poster, I decided
that it wasn’t possible to have the billing block at the bottom. I then
decided to develop the convention and have it at the top instead.
After doing some extra research, I found that ‘The Perks of Being A
Wallflower’ also had the billing block near the top.
Other than that, I haven’t developed or challenged any other
conventions, only used them. I decided not to include the actors
names, as there was no room, due to the main image and billing
block taking up space. However, this isn’t an issue as the actors
names are included in the billing block. I decided to keep the film
poster very simple, so it only includes a couple of conventions. The
film title is the most important convention, because without this,
the audience wouldn’t know what film it is. The last convention that
I used was film reviews. These help the audience decide whether or
not they want to see the film, so I believe that it is an important
convention to include.

4. With my film magazine cover, I wanted to follow
conventions For the masthead, I placed it at the top, which
is the conventional way to have it. I chose to make it a little
smaller than it typically is, as on many magazines covers, the
masthead takes up the whole space. However, I wanted it to
be a bit smaller, so that it didn’t overpower the magazine as
much. I then put the issue and price of the magazine
underneath, which every magazine includes. The colour
scheme is conventional as it includes less than 4 colours. I
prefer magazine covers that are a lot more simplistic,
however I chose not to develop this and stuck to the typical
film magazine style. I included a main cover line in the left
corner and other cover lines above. I created two puffs,
which are both in the same colour. These will attract the
audience and encourage them to read the magazine. The
final convention that I included was a barcode. Without
this, people wouldn’t be able to buy the magazine.