The document discusses how a student media project's horror trailer, poster, and magazine used and challenged conventions of real horror media. The trailer used common horror conventions like sound effects and a dark tone. It was inspired by films like Friday the 13th. However, it challenged conventions by having a slower pace, less iconography, and no character communication. While the antagonist held a knife, typical of horror, the characters' clothes were too clean.

1. QUESTION 1: IN WHAT WAYS
DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE
FORMS AND CONVENTIONS
OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

2. EDITING
 Our trailer follows the common conventions of a horror trailer as
shown using sound and effects when editing the trailer.
 The trailer that we made included lots of sound to help build tension
during certain parts of the trailer and to give the trailer a sense of
realism.
 We added multiple effects to the trailer such as a video camcorder
so that the audience feel as if they are watching the actual
recording not just a film.
 The overall film is quite dark which is a typical horror convention.
 We looked at multiple horror films such as Friday 13th and The
Woman In Black to help give us ideas when editing our horror trailer.

3. PHOTOSHOP
 When making our horror poster and magazine, we looked at
various existing horror film posters and magazines to help give us
ideas.
 Our horror poster was inspired by the horror poster, 'The Woman
In Black’.
 We added various effects to the horror poster to add more
realism to the poster and to make it feel more dull, similar to The
Woman In Black.

4. FOOTAGE
 Our horror trailer challenges the common conventions of a horror
trailer as it is not very fast paced.
 Also there is not a lot of iconography, whereas in a typical horror
trailer there is a lot.
 There is no communication between characters in our horror
trailer which challenges the common conventions of a horror
trailer by making it hard to establish antagonists from
protagonists.

5. COSTUME/PROP
 The characters in our horror trailer had casual clothes on which
were clean which goes against horror trailers as most horror
trailers have dirty and torn clothes.
 Our antagonist had a knife which represented the fact that she is
evil and possessed.
 The antagonist in our horror trailer had multiple marks on her skin
to represent that she is evil and to help the audience understand
that she is the antagonist.