1) The document discusses conventions for advertising films using teasers, posters, and magazines. Research was done on examples like Prisoners and Inception to ensure conventions were properly used. 2) Key details that were researched for different genre representations include characters, narratives, and settings commonly seen in psychological thrillers. Examples like investigators and criminals are described. 3) Thrillers are meant to create thrills for audiences over 15. Psychological thrillers in particular involve psychological elements and focus on characters descending into madness. Settings commonly involve dark, haunted places that enhance the psychological elements.

1. MEDIA
EvaluationTask 1

2. Format
conventions

3. TeaserTrailer
Duration: 1:14 Editing: montage
Sound: diegetic/non-diegetic
Text: text used to
emphasize message to
audience
Research was done on all of the above conventions. Research allowed us to ensure that we were creating a teaser
trailer that was suitable and adequate and fitted the genre that we were presenting (thriller). Prisoners is a film with
similar conventions to us regarding duration, editing, sound and text. Creating are teaser trailer based off that
movie was essential for us it allowed us to create a more accurate teaser trailer.

4. Poster
Inception a thriller film genre is another that I researched during the period were the poster was being
complied. The Poster have similarities, such as the tagline which for both posters is located at the top of
poster, another similarity is the billing block of the poster which is positioned at the bottom of the
poster.
Title of film
Main
image
Billing block
tagline
Background image

5. Magazine
Empire is a magazine that I researched throughout the procedure of creating the current magazine cover that we
persisted with. Empire was appealing to us at the time due to its striking design and the genre that are presented
on their magazine which are usually action thriller movies meant that it is a possibility that empire could choose
to present are movie on their magazine.
Main image
Barcode
and
dateline
strapline
Coverline's
topline

6. Overview
■ Magazines, teaser trailers, posters are powerful ways of advertising films and help the
movie to gain popularity. Magazines help people to get educated and learn about the
movie, posters help the movie to get more noticed. Teaser trailers give the public an
insight into what the movie will be like visually, containing sound this will help the
audience to identify whether the movie is appealing to them.

7. Genre
conventions

8. characters
■ The particular representations that
commonly dominate in a phycological thriller could
be someone like an investigator with an aim of trying
to find something out through out the film his task
has been to achieve this goal of investigating a
particular story however there is a plot twist and
something goes wrong and suddenly he begins to not
trust in himself and the audience will begin to notice
that he is developing some sort of mental issue which
keeps on developing for the worse.
■ Another story could possibly be that a criminal has a
escaped prison however once he has
escaped these sudden flashbacks hit him of the
crime that he did before he got put
inside jail, these flashbacks begin to haunt him and
eventually he ends up killing himself.
■ A person gets wrongly put into prison for a murder
that he never committed or was associated with, he
is put in a high security prison where people are in
prison for crimes such as mass murder and rape,
the inmates begin to terrorize him and beat him up
on a regular basis causing the innocent man to go
insane.
•CRIMINALS
•POLICE
•CONVICTS
•PRISON IN
MATES
•INVESTIGATORS
•MURDERERS
Character
examples
Representation
examples

9. Narrative
■ A thrillers plot commonly
evolves around a character that
causes dilemma and complete
chaos for the protagonist, this
happens when the villain in the
film puts obstructions in the
way of the protagonist
meaning that the character
must defeat what ever comes
towards his direction.
■ Heavily indulged in violence,
thrillers are associated with
murders and crime, when one
of the characters is located in a
situation where he must escape
or face the consequences which
could even be death are
common scenarios in a thriller
movie.
Commonly in crime thrillers there is theft
involved, for example this could be that someone
has been kidnapped and in return the thieves
want a sum of money to return the person back
safely. commonly in mystery thrillers there will
be an investigation taking place to investigate a
murder that has happened in local village.There
are also phycological thrillers which will bring in
the mental element of things, possibly a
policeman has been taken into a crime scene
however as soon as he steps into the zone of
where the death happened he begins to see
things that nobody else can see leading people to
think there is something wrong with.
Death
Crime
Investigations
Weapons
Serial killers
Hospitals
Prisons
Courts
Schools
cities/towns
Narrative devices

10. setting
•Typically psychological thrillers are set
in the house of the character this is
common as it allows the audience to get
an understanding of the way in which
the character used to live and how
slowly he begins to go mad he might be
objective to violence but however one
day the audience sees a weapon on his
table, commonly dark places are used
such as woods or abandoned areas such
as kids playgrounds these areas are
considered to be haunted making it
ideal for the genre. Flash backs can be
used to show the audience about past
experiences that the character had
providing evidence that he is slowly
going mad.

11. Overview
■ Thrillers are movies that are meant to create a thrilling atmosphere for the audience
within the thriller genre exist many sub-genres that are more specific such as
phycological thrillers that have more phycological elements within it.Thrillers are
more suitable for 15 years and over the elements that the majority of thrillers have can
be frightening and un-suitable for children younger than the age of 15.