In our horror film we have developed some typical horror film conventions while also using some without development: - We developed conventions by having the man die in the opening scene rather than the woman, and by not showing the killer, bringing more variety. - We did not develop conventions in our use of close-up shots of victims' faces or in our typical young person clothing and living room setting, using these conventions to create familiarity and increase fear. - We developed the convention of sound by making our soundtrack more up-tempo and scary to add tension, unlike other films with more eerie sounds. - We used a mix of bright and dark lighting to challenge conventions that usually only use one type

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Christopher Demetriou

2. In our horror film we have developed typical horror film conventions.
What we have done to develop them is:
A man getting killed instead of the women as you can see in the far right.
As you can see scream 4 and psycho the woman dies in the opening scene
The killer is not shown in our opening scene for our one (far right) but in Hannibal, psycho
and scream they are shown.
We did this to bring variety and make it different from all the same conventions. By
developing the conventions we have made it far more interesting and unexpected to the
viewer making it more scary.
Q1: In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?

3. Q1: In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
Editing:
 In editing we broke the convention of not showing a weapon or how the person died.
Unlike Psycho. As you can see we don’t know how he has died.
We did this because we wanted to make it different and to create a sense of mystery
making it more scary for the audience.
Camera shots:
 We used typical horror film conventions by showing a close up of the victims face. This
is also the same in Scream 4 and in Psycho. Thus us not developing the convention,
mainly because it creates more horror to the viewer. This is done by making the stillness
of the actors face creepy.

4. Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Sound:
The sound we used doesn’t challenge forms and conventions but we have
developed it by making it more up tempo and scary adding tension and fear
into the viewer.
This has been developed, as the others are also eerie. However different to
ours as they haven’t got the same pace and beat, making our sound more
scary then other horror films.
Mise-en-scene: clothes
The clothes our actors were wearing are typical young people clothes
comfterable but yet fashionable. Whereas in Psycho she wasn’t wearing any
clothes, however this was distributed 50 years ago. Whereas Scream 4 was
also aimed at the same target audience as us (young people) they have the
same clothes as what we had in ours. Thus our film not challenging nor
developing because we used a similar style of clothes.
Scream 4 Our film

5. Mise-en-scene: lighting
We used a mix of bright and dark light making it more scary and challenging
conventions, because in Psycho was just black and white, Hannibal was bright light.
This suggests that in horror film in the opening scene horror films just tend to have
one type of lighting throughout whereas we did a variety. Making it more different and
scary
Mise-en-scene: Location
We used a typical location by using a living room in a house which is used in a lot of
horror films. E.g. Scream, Psycho etc. We did not develop this convention, because
we wanted it to seem like it can happen to anyone, making it more scary.
Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?