IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCTS DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL

MEDIA PRODUCTS?

When creating our teaser trailer we looked at other

films so we could follow the correct conventions.

We looked at…

‘House At The End of The

Street’

TITLES

When creating the titles for our teaser trailer, we

had to look at various aspects of the titles they used

in House At the End of The Street. The main

conventions for titles we looked at included:

COLOUR

FONT

SIZE

This was our first creation for our title. As you can

see it follows the conventions very similarly to House

at the End of the street.

This is our finished title…..

We used similar phrases in our teaser trailer, as

shown in our real media text. We used very similar

font and background to our real media text.

FINAL DECISION

As you can see we have changed the title dramatically from what we first

had created. We have kept with the same colour scheme, which is yellow,

but every other convention to the ‘House at the end of the street’ has

changed. The font of the title was inspired from ‘Inception’, this is

because it was a film we researched at the beginning of creating our

teaser trailer. We found that this title had a better ‘thriller’ feel to it. The

size of the font has also changed by making the letters further apart and

making the font smaller. The House at the End of the street title inspired

our title initially , through the colour. This deep yellow colour was used in

all 3 elements and therefore helped us create our brand image.

SETTING

The setting of our teaser trailer was very similar to

our real media text. Both are set in a house,

surrounded by a wooded area.

On the Left is our real media text, on the right is

our teaser trailer.

This shows stereotypical symbols of a thriller, as a

wooded, dark, secluded area is known for having a

scary aspect in it. This lets our audience know what

genre our teaser trailer is and where our film is set.

Both our real media text and our teaser trailer

establish the setting very early on in the teaser

trailer.

COSTUME

In our teaser trailer we had the main characters in

simple, casual clothing to show the realistic aspect

of our teaser trailer. No outrageous costumes were

used in our teaser trailer, so it would not give away

any clues of the plot to the audience.

The ‘murderer’ worn dark clothing throughout the

teaser trailer to not make him stand out. Wearing

dark clothing symbolises a dark era about the

persons personality. This went along with our real

media text as the all characters wore casual

clothing, but the character the audience are

suspicious of wore darker clothing. We also used a

policeman to show that a character was being

arrested, this was shown effectively through no

dialogue.

GENRE OF OUR TRAILER

Our teaser trailer is a thriller. We chose to make a

thriller teaser trailer as we thought it was easier to

follow the conventions of real media text. Our film is

aimed at people ages 15 and above, but our target

market is young adults. We feel people older

wouldn’t be as interested in the film as younger

people. Our real media text is obviously the same

genre and also the same age rating.

MAGAZINE

We chose Empire Magazine, as it advertises mainly

thriller films. Even though our real media text was

not advertised in this magazine we felt it was the

best idea to use it. We followed the conventions of

different Empire Magazine covers to make ours look

realistic. We followed the colour scheme, fonts and

images.

POSTER

For our poster we followed the conventions of 2 different House

at the End of The Street posters. From the images we had taken

for our poster we felt it was necessary to combine the two to

create our poster. The same font was used, so the audience could

recognise our brand. An image of the main character on the left

in our poster but on the right in our real media text. We followed

the convention of having the image of the house on the poster

too. We also have a billing block in our poster which is the same

for our real media text.

OVERALL

I feel we followed the conventions very well in all three aspects of our

brand.

For our teaser trailer, costume, setting and titles were used effectively

and were similar to our real media text. This is good because it shows we

have researched our real media text well.

For our magazine cover we followed the conventions exactly to make sure

the cover looks realistic. The same title of ‘Deception’ was used here also.

For our poster we also followed the conventions well but I felt the font for

all of the writing could have looked better and the image of the character

needed to blend into the background better.