The product i have produced uses forms and conventions of existing spoof horror films, and also joint conventions from both horror films and comedy films. I believe it has used forms and conventions as through the research and planning i had conducted i used what i had learnt to be able to plan and layout the media products that i have produced. I have done this by sticking to pre-exisiting conventions of spoof horrors such as 'scary movie' which i researched and also scream. Although scream is not strictly a 'spoof horror' genre it contains many conventions and aspects of such which i found through research i had conducted. Although the horror is seen to shine more strongly through.
The storyline to our teaser trailer is rather conventional to the spoof horror genre as it contains aspects from pre exsiting horror films to which we have included as a theme to ours. However we have made it fit our genre by adding comedy aspects to the pre existing themes. The horror film we have used to base our spoof around is 'Insidious' hence our name 'Insideofrus'. We have previously planned to base our horror film on The blair witch project however we found this as a challenge as we would not be allowed to appear in our own film but we would need to self record like a home made documentory. This would not leave us with much free room for the types of camera shots and movements we could use.
In our teaser trailer it sticks to conventions by using probs and motifs to hint to the audience of the type of genre. We found this to be a typical convention when researching into teaser trailers. i believe we done this by adding 'from the makers of scary movie and scream' at the beginning of our trailer, we also included 'Best spoof horror since the scary movie sequels' as you can see from my snapshot below.
Also a main convention which our trailer has developed is the use of a soundtrack playing throughout the trailer. At first we used the jaw theme tune, however we recieved audience feedback that this may give the trailer a much too 'horror' theme. This allowed us to change it to something much more light hearted but still with a horror aspect. We found the use of a sound track to be a very popular and typical convention across all genre of teaser trailer.
I believe that my media products challenges and develops forms and conventions of real media products as the genre that me and my partner picked was a fairly uncommon and a real challenge to produce. Together through making this me and my partner was made to challenge both horror conventions and genre as well as the comedy conventions and genre as we had to make both the different genres work together in harmony. through the use of having to challenge and develop conventions of real media we learnt alot whilst doing it and hope that we have made a teaser trailer which does spoof horror as a genre justice. As well as challenging types of genres we was also challenging conventions of gender within a film. We included a male dresses as a female within our teaser trailer to bring a very strong comedy aspect to the trailer, this is something not commonly found within films, and especially spoof horrors. This meant we had to be very careful about how we made the character look and behave to really put across the 'mixed gender' aspect.
In regards to my ancillary task of having to produce a magazine front cover i followed the main convention of having a main character within the centre of the cover. I also included many typical conventions of a front cover such as articles relevant to the film and also having articles which are just additional information to draw audiences in. I included a masthead, skyline, a big magazine title and also a barcode which are all forms and conventions of real media products that i have developed in my media products.
My second ancillary task included making a movie poster to promote my film. I believe i had followed the main conventions of a movie poster by having a background picture including character(s) included in the film and my magazine contains a picture of the main character 'Rus' as a close up of his face. I also had a clear colour scheme which is a usual convention, within this convention i also used colours typical to that of a horror film poster e.g. black, reds, greys and whites. I also included a quote from a newspaper or magazine which is found to be a typical convention to which i have formed and developed for my media product.
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