The document discusses James Timms' media products and how they conform to or challenge conventions. For the trailer, magazine, and posters, James took inspiration from films and other media in the same genre, incorporating conventions like editing techniques, music choices, and magazine/poster designs. While following conventions to make the products appealing, James also added his own touches to keep the individuality and avoid being too similar or boring. Time management and technology limitations somewhat impacted James' ability to challenge conventions or include more elements.

1. James Timms

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

3. Refer to your research and the conventions you identified for each type of
production.
 For the trailer which I have produced, I used
three trailers of the same genre to take
inspiration from, they were; ‘Psycho’, ‘The
Silent House’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’. I
took a lot of ideas from these trailers and
incorporated them with my personal touch. One
of the main factors I had the most influence
from was the editing, especially ‘Silence of the
Lambs’ which several techniques were
incorporated a lot such as; fade ins and outs,
jump cuts. Also a lot sound influences were
taken. One a piece of music similar to the sound
track of ‘Psycho’ and ‘The silent house’
 When regarding my magazine and posters I yet
again decided to match the genres, as I
thought all of the article I researched were of
extremely good quality and were effective.

4. Discuss how/why these media conventions are effective.
• These conventions are effective as they give a baseline for
producers everywhere, as well as giving them inspiration.
Before creating my products I chose three films to analyse,
they were ‘Silent House’, ‘Psycho’, and ‘Silence of the
Lambs’. These three films were part of my genre thus I
took a lot of influences and inspiration. For example the
‘Psycho’ trailer has a piece of music throughout which builds
up over time, having an effect of the rest of trailers speed,
I decided to take inspiration from this when choosing our
music as it remained subtle in the background with a few
heaving beats throughout adding tension as our ‘Stalker’ got
closer. Another influence was the editing , ‘The Silence of
the Lambs’ trailer made use of this during the end when a
quick cut of shots continued adding tension which wasn’t
present during the start of it.

5. Analyse how your productions conform to, or challenge, these conventions
and why you chose to do this.
• During the production of my three products, I decided
not to challenge the conventions, I did this as I wanted
to make my products similar to those of the same genre as
possible making them appeal. However I didn’t make them
to similar as the would lose their individuality, and be ‘too
boring’. For example my trailer, took influences from a
variety of films, and had a lot of different editing
techniques used combined with a variety of sound effects
to add to the tension which I was trying to create. Also
the poster which I created, I decided to use an image of
the actress from behind rather than actually showing her
face, I decided to do this because our main aspect if the
trailer is that a girl is being followed, rather than showing
an image from the front and showing her terror, making
the audience wonder what will happen.

6. Were there are issues in your quest to challenge or conform (available
technology, time management, organisation, practicalities etc.)?
 During the process of making the products several
aspects came in the way. The main one being the
technology, I think with the usage of ‘Sony Vegas’
and ‘Photoshop’, I would have been able to edit
my original images and footage more than already
did. However I think the products were at a good
enough quality.
 Another aspect which effected it was my time
management, during the start of the process my
time management was poor, as well as my
organisational skills, thus meaning I wasn’t able to
get as many images or as much footage as I would
of liked too.