In what ways does your media product develop or challenge forms and conventions of real

media products?

Our horror trailer was influenced by the 2012 film “The Possession” in this film the main character is

also a small innocent girl who discovers an object which takes

control of her and causes paranormal happenings.

In our trailer, the girl is possessed by a demon doll who wished, like

the box in the possession, to escape its confinement within the object and uses the child as a way

of getting free.

We followed the basic conventions of a horror trailer, it begins slow and

gradually picks up speed and tension to create a dramatic climax. We also

followed the idea of something popping up at the end of the trailer to

frighten the audience as they believe it is over. Other horror trailers which

have done this are sinister.

Many horror films today follow the same genre type of “paranormal

activity” however we have broken that convention as it is not the house that is haunted but the

object which she carries with her, so not everything takes place

within the house but also happens elsewhere.

We also went against the new phase of

hand held cameras because we

believe that it would not have been

effective for our trailer because we

believed that it would not be as scary.

When the girl is positioning herself in abnormal ways we took this idea from

films such as “The Last Exorcism”. We believe this is

effective as possessions are usually associated with demons taking control

of the body and making it do things which it shouldn't, making it disturbing

but also scary.

This convention of horror films was also used by “The Exorcist” in 1973. This proves that this conventions has been effective because it has carried on for so many years which means

many horror films still use this in order to scare their audience but also excite

them.

In conclusion Overall, we believe that we have mostly followed conventions and forms of real media products such as effects, camera shots and the layout of a typical horror trailer. The only contrast to this is that we have not followed the leading style of horrors today such as paranormal

activity which means that we are giving the audience something different to

watch.