1a) In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1. Q1a) In what ways do your media
products use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?

2. Here I have presented my media product and I will explore as to
how it conforms and subverts typical media conventions of real media
products. An example of how my product conforms to what is expected
of typical horror posters is through iconography. The blood splatters
makes evident of the genre which my film is based around. I used
Photoshop to create my poster, using the font SF Movie Poster to create
my credits in a form of a billing block and placed it at the bottom of the
poster, again following the conventions of the usual placement of the
billing block on a film poster.
With regards to the my main image, I used the chiaroscuro effect which
again suggests that it is a horror film. This creates a rather eerie and
contrasting effect in the character as we can see both light and dark,
which could reflect the characters personality
The tag line ‘He was conceived by the evil spirit’ again highlights that the
genre is super natural and the fact that some evil spirit plays a major role
in the film. In addition, it also makes us question as to ‘He’ is and how he
was conceived by this evil spirit, consequently creating a feeling of
suspense,
POSTER

3. What I have presented here is my film magazine front cover and how it
conforms or subverts from the typical film magazine. I have placed the
master head is placed at the top of the front cover which conforms to
conventions of magazines as it has the intention to grasp the attention of
the reader and draw them towards the name of the magazine. Below this
is the tag line of the magazine, again conforming to the location of the
standard tag line.
I conformed to the standard convention of a front cover by ensuring that
the model looked straight at the camera and through mise en scene I
subverted the typical horror movie covers by dressing my model in white
which generally symbolises purity.
You can immediately get the idea that the film is a horror film through
the blood on the hands of the model. It leaves us to question as to why
he has blood on his hand and we get the impression that he is the
person causing the disruption. To compare my magazine to others and
gaining an insight into standard horror movie front covers, I gained
inspiration from Empire magazine and followed some convention that is
possessed.
Furthermore, I included the names of some famous horror films ‘Devil
Inside’ and ‘Conjuring’ as it has the intention to gain the attention of
those who are fans of these films.
MAGAZINE

4. For my film poster, I gained inspiration
from the horror film poster ‘Smiley’.
Similar conventions that my poster
possess with Smiley is that both models
are looking directly at the camera. The
colour schemes of the text is also the
same as my poster, following a red and
white colour scheme this is a fairly
typical convention of a horror film
poster.
I also gained some inspiration from
the horror movie poster of the film
‘Red City’ Similar conventions that both
posters possess is the blood splatters which
grabs the attention of the viewer and
immediately makes evident of the genre.
however the main imagine subverts my
main image at the model does not look
directly at the camera and instead is looking
at the side.
MY INSPIRATION
For my magazine, again I have the model
looking directly at the camera, which is very
common as you can see in the magazine Empire
another similarity is that the master head is placed
at the top of the magazine, as it usually is on a magazine.
both my magazine and the Empire magazine have bottoms
On the right hand side of the magazine which posses a
selling point. Both magazines also possesses a feature of other
horror film, which again will attract the attention of those who are
keen on these films.