In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I feel that in our horror movie teaser trailer we have used quite a lot of the conventional forms within in such as:

• It gives away just enough of the narrative within the footage for the audience to understand what the film is about but not know the full story so it will entice them to go and see it to find out.
• The use of titles throughout the trailer helps the narrative to roll along nicely and build up a sentence gradually to help the audience with the narrative.
• The general mood and atmosphere shown through the footage to familiarise with the audience on what genre the film is.
• Some information is shown to the audience but not too much so they have to guess the missing parts of the narrative.
• Dramatic camera angles to show desperation etc.
• The title doesn't appear until the very end of the trailer along with the date.
• The sound makes the atmosphere for the trailer and without that it would not be as effective.

We have used quite a lot of horror conventions such as: blood, darkness, deserted location, forest/woodland, white contrasting make up, a supernatural villain, supernatural elements, frightened characters etc ; We have used this to our advantage but we haven't over done it so it looks extremely student made or very fake. 

Many teaser trailers are around 1 minute 30 seconds long, a lot less than an actually theatrical trailer. Our trailer is slightly shorter than that at 1 minute 22 seconds.

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First set of stills.
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Second set of stills.
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Third set of stills
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