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

Professional Trailer

Aspects of Professional Trailer

Watching this trailer you can easily identify it is a professional trailer through the sound, camera angles and the identification of the companies the film has been made by. The trailer flickers from clip to clip, this speeds up as the trailer continues which adds suspense. You hear the music get faster and the noises get louder as the clips speed up which creates tension for the audience making them want to watch the film. The trailer starts with a ringing phone and a shot zooming into the phone slowly, this is followed by a man and woman showing a younger girl around the house. This is conveying that everything will be okay at the beginning of the film, but things will change as time goes on. The shots of the man in the house are very quick and sharp so that we can’t properly identify who the man is. The trailer ends with the music slowing down and the title presenting itself, followed by a clip of the girl quickly turning around to find a man behind her which makes the audience jump. The young girl in the trailer is used effectively as it shows that she is vulnerable and an underdog to the attacker which immediately makes the audience feel her fear.

Our Complete Trailer

Aspects of our Trailer and Comparisons to the Professional TrailerLike the professional trailer, we use Amelia as the main actor in the trailer due to her being a young girl who is more vulnerable to an attacker. At the beginning of the trailer we present the companies that have helped in the production of the movie and as the trailer continues, the clips get faster and so does the music, this gives the trailer a more professional look and builds up suspense. We have a shot of the car pulling into the drive and a voice over of Shane speaking to Amelia, this is good as Shane is speaking about the house and then this clip is followed by a clip of the house and a sign on the wall. This makes the audience feel as though they have the view of Shane which is a point of view shot and creates a sense of fear for the audience.

Professional Posters

Aspects of Professional Poster

These professional Posters have a lot of similarities and differences. As you can see, there is a close up, on both magazines, of two woman's faces, one old and one young. On the “House at the end of the street” poster you can see the fear in the young girls facial expression with a scary looking house in the background. On “The Devil Inside” poster you can see there is something wrong with the old women due to her eyes, also the outline on the right hand side is red and it fades out before it gets to the woman's face. Due to these effects on both magazines, as soon as you look you can identify that this is advertising a horror movie. On both magazines it shows the date the movie is released in the cinema and on the top of the poster it has either a quote, a slogan, an actors name or a statement about the film. This gives the audience a slight bit of information about the film to help them decide if they wish to watch it. “Inspired by True Events” always draws an audience in as it makes them feel as though it could happen to them.

Our Complete Poster

Aspects of our Poster and Comparisons to the Professional PostersLike the professional posters, we are focusing on just one person to try and draw the audience in. It is another female except it is a young girl. The devils due poster focused on an old woman, and the main feature on the woman's face was her eyes as their was clearly something wrong with them. We took this idea for our poster by doing Annie's makeup (the young girl in our poster) to clearly alter the region around her eyes and darken them. We then took pictures of her, picked out the certain image we did and edited it to make her eyes look scary to make the audience interested as soon as they see the picture. Our title is also presented at the bottom of the page, this makes sure that the image can clearly be seen. We used dark colours such as red to convey the idea of danger surrounding this girl so that the audience know straight away that this girl is going to be a scary character in the film. The text fonts that we have used look very professional, the main title is in the largest font, followed by the films motto, and then all the small text at the bottom showing who has been involved in the production.

Professional Magazine Cover

Aspects of Professional Magazine CoverBoth magazines have large images focusing on the main headline that the magazine contains, followed by smaller images for other smaller stories inside. This gives the audience an incline as to what the majority of the magazine is going to be talking about. Both of the titles of the magazines are large and in capital letters using scary fonts to catch the audiences eyes. They also have coloured boxes at the top and bottom containing information on what else is inside, how much the magazine was and what issue the magazine was. The “SCREAM” magazine also has a barcode in the bottom left which is a good place to put it as it is out of the way from what the reader will be mainly focusing on. The main feature that makes these magazines stand out, is the contrast in colours, the white background with the green and black text and the black background with the red text stand out a lot.

Our Complete Magazine Cover

Aspects of our Magazine and Comparisons to the Professional MagazinesThis is our finished magazine design. We opted for a black background with grey and red text, this helped the magazine get that horror feel straight away due to red and black being scary and danger colours. We took the idea of using rectangular shapes and adding text into them, we had 2 white boxes including information on price, what issue the magazine is, and what else is to be found inside the magazine. Like the professional magazine on the left on the previous slides, we have placed the barcode in the bottom left of the magazine, due to the background being black and the barcode being white, it does stand out more than we would of originally wised, although the audiences eyes should still firmly be hooked and the large scary image of Annie. We decided to add some information on the cover of the magazine about film ratings and awards it has won. Although we were unable to find other horror magazines which had done this, we found normal film magazines which had taken this idea. This feature gives the audience an idea into how good the film is suspected to be and may sway them to buy the magazine and watch the film.

Overall, our magazine, poster and trailer have taken aspects of professional media products to help our products look more professional. We have also taken ideas from other magazines and expanded on these ideas to help us develop unique products to challenge real media products.