The document discusses conventions in horror media products and how the student's trailer challenges some conventions. Specifically: - Most horror trailers feature women as vulnerable victims and men as villains, but the student's trailer features male victims being tortured by a female villain. - Villains are usually shown in dark clothing, but the student's trailer features the female villain in white to challenge expectations. - The order of narrative sections in the trailer is distorted from conventions to create confusion, in line with the horror genre. - The shifting roles of villain and victim in different sections of the trailer make applying Propp's character theory difficult.

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

3. The main points I discovered are on my blog and are as follows: -The name of the producers in a text card for example ‘Fox Searchlight’. -Fast shots with little or very little amounts of clarity, this is very effective and leaves the viewer in suspense, leading them to want and watch the film. - Dark lighting is very effective as most people become nervous in the dark. - Pathetic fallacy is often used - The use of rural areas is important, in our trailer especially, because if a very urban location was used the person would not seem alone and isolated. - Text card are often used to tell information - The use of weapons and showing of blood or gore is often popular to horror audiences. - The use of a victim. - The disequilibrium section is very fast and often has very few transitions the use of a final scare.

13. Overall I feel that all of my work follows basic conventions of their respected area. I feel that this makes each of the products recognisable to the genre of horror. I also feel that our trailer does actually challenge some conventions by having a dominant female character for the majority of the trailer. As well as this I feel that the trailer is representative of the genre horror