Question 5 Media evaluation

1. KILLER’S IDENTITY IS A MYSTERY
• Most Slasher films will have a killer whose identity is
unknown for most of the film, sometimes all of it. This
is to keep the audience interested by leaving his
identity up to them and as a narrative tool, so the
protagonists have something to investigate.
• In my media product, we have used this with our
own villain for these reasons and to also make him
more sinister as he is faceless murderer

2. Ghost face killer from famous slasher film
Scream
3 masked Killers from The Strangers
Killer from Dante’s Harpie
(My media product)

3. YOUNG CHARACTERS
• Certain films use age as a way so the characters
can relate to the audience. An example of this is a
Coming of age drama. These films use teenagers
and they appeal to teenagers.
• In my media product, the main characters are
young, as to attract people in the same age gap.

4. Teenage cast of I Know What You Did Last
Summer
Cast of Cabin in the
Woods
Victim from Dante’s Harpie
(My media product)
Police officers from My media
product

5. LOCATION
• A horror films setting is key. It would be set
somewhere ‘normal’ such as a school or woods, as
to have the audience in a familiar setting so they
can then have a new fear for it.
• In my media product, I used a common setting of
horror films. I used a wooded area for narrative
purposes, as the killer kills his victims there, and for
the purpose above, as to make a familiar setting
scary for a viewer.

6. Location for Friday the
13th
Location for Psycho
Location for my Dante’s Harpie
(My Media product)