During the initial planning, the group did not want to mimic mainstream horror conventions like slashers or possessions. They wanted an original story without excessive gore or a predictable killer. The main character is juxtaposed to typical victims and brings a sense of isolation through silence rather than comic relief. There is no actual death scene, leaving an open ending to require more audience interaction than passive films. While the setting of an abandoned building at night and basic sound effects of banging and scraping reference real horror films, the goal was to challenge conventions and reduce predictability through developing new approaches to character and plot.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
During the initial planning we didn’t want to mimic any mainstream
horror movies such as Friday the 13th
or A nightmare on Elm Street
due to high feeling of cliché that is already flowing quite strongly in
the horror genre or in general the movie industry right now.
We didn’t want to drag ideas and conventions out of the larger
films just to have in ours for the sake of having them, we wanted to
create an original project that didn’t have a killer slashing every
character into pieces or a possession corrupting many characters
and the aim to end the ghost/demon.
My group created a character juxtaposed to that of a character
likely to be butchered in a horror film, although we had kept some
features such as the feeling of vulnerability and the feeling of dread.
The characters (teenagers in horror films) often have a great deal to
say and most of the time offer comic relief to the scenes such as
insulting each other or laughing at something irrelevant to the plot,
however the character in my group’s project is strictly silent and
brings forth the idea that she is all alone or at least that is what she
believes.
In the horror institution slasher films normally have blood and gore
in bucket loads, however sometimes I believe that it just takes that
sense of realism away and that is not what I want in my project. So
as to contradict the normality of what is considered usual in the
horror genre when it comes to killers my short scene has no actual
death scene as to leave an open ending in the piece and force the
audience to have to interact just that tiny bit as to make my project
not entirely passive which is almost always the case when it comes
to film and a lot of forms of media.
One thing that is borrowed from real media products is that of the
setting, it takes place at a large abandoned building just as night is
about to fall which signifies danger in pretty much all horror films
but specifically in films which contain characters such as the
Wolfman or Dracula, also the large abandoned building is a popular

2. setting the real horror media to give a sense of aloneness and
abandonment.
The sound effects used in this such as banging and scraping are also
very common in real media as they are the basic senses of an
unfriendly presence in a horror movie and they help signify danger
and just generally another presence.