The document discusses the conventions of horror films that the media product draws from and challenges. It notes that common conventions include themes of good vs evil, dark iconography and settings, and an evil figure threatening the protagonist. The creators analyzed horror films to understand these conventions and apply them appropriately. While their work fits many conventions, like including a protagonist and villain, it challenges one by having the male character die early rather than the female, as often happens. They aimed to break conventions like the film Psycho did by unexpectedly killing off the leading lady early.

1. Question 1 – In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
The conventions of our chosen genre, which is horror, are that there is a theme
of good vs. evil, the iconography is very dark and uses props such as blood,
knives and other forms of weaponry, the settings used are abandoned buildings,
dark environments, settings are key as they create the mood. Common narrative
devices are that there is some sort of evil being trying to kill or scare the hero or
protagonist or hero. Common characters in horrors are the stupid teenager that
gets killed, the villain and the hero.
The research we concluded prior to our construction was that we found out
about the conventions of horror, we did this by analysing films, such as
Halloween, Insidious and The Conjuring etc. we found out about the conventions
and learned how they are used in a title sequence. This also gave us some ideas
on what to include in our film and how to do them correctly and properly.
Our work fits with these conventions well; there is a protagonist in our film and
also a villain who is trying to kill him. This also challenges the conventions as in
most horror films it is the female character who dies earlier on in the film, but in
our film it is a male character therefore this stretches and challenges that specific
convention of horror.
A good example of this is the film ‘Psycho’ by Alfred Hitchcock. 30 minutes into
the film the films antagonist kills off the leading lady, Janet Leigh. This was

2. effective because is was shocking in world of film as it has never been done
before so we tried to this in our film, to break away from convention.
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