Evaluation

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

For my A2 Media coursework, I decided to create a film teaser trailer. Before I could even begin to make my film trailer  have to do a vast majority of research. I researched trailers on the internet (YouTube) and in the cinema. By paying attention to film trailers that I had researched I could use the conventions of these films trailers, into mine. I challenged and developed conventions by again looking at film trailers and using their ideas, but betraying them in my own way, a way which suited my personal film trailer. In a film trailer ‘horror genre’ it is conventional for it to make the audience scared and to make the audience jump. My trailer was targeted at horror so therefore had to make the audience jump, but with this also, I created a sense of eeriness and frightfulness. From this I think personally I challenged forms of conventions of real media. Also in my trailer, I attempt the ‘false sense of security’ which tricks the audience into thinking everything is okay, but suddenly something goes wrong.  I tried my very best to portray this in my Trailer. Also along with my Film trailer, I had to create a film poster and also a front page of a film magazine. I defiantly used media conventions throughout the both of these topics. Again before I to make them I researched and analysed magazines that I owned, magazines that were online and magazines which were in the shops My final Film poster that I created, I think that I challenged the forms of a real media product. For instance, the writing on a film poster is most likely at the bottom of the poster, I decided to put mine at the top of the poster which looked different to most. I also developed conventions of a real media magazine by using one picture as the main background to the poster. Overall I believe that my media product used, developed and challenged forms and conventions of a real media product.