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July 03, 2017

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Media Language

I believe that despite the overuse of certain conventions and iconography presented in horror movies, the movies still fulfill their aim of attracting an audience and "scaring" them, not necessarily because of the conventions themselves, but because of the meaning behind them. Our summer horror trailer was based on a slasher sub genre. Similarly to other sub genres, there are conventions and iconography that are typically denoted in every slasher movie and my group and I followed certain ones so the audience could easily identify our sub genre without us saying so. A way in which our trailer told the audience its sub genre was through mis en scene; through the use of clothing that our antagonist wore. Our antagonist wore a pair of gloves to hide his hands as that helped emphasise the lack of identity consequently enforcing the sense of mysteriousness which as a result would build fear and adrenaline in the audience. This is a type of convention typically used in slasher m

Audience essay

To create a successfully scary trailer, there are theories that the audience theory consists of which the trailer should follow as it analyses the behaviour and reaction towards horror movie genres. The better the reactions from the audience, the better the trailer is therefore analysing them may help improve of future trailer. The Hypodermic model theory suggests that the deeper messages in movies and trailers are "injected" into the audience and can influence their actions and mindsets towards things e.g. The constant convention of darkness being connoted as evil has influenced our mindsets towards the dark so much so that now people are scared not of the dark but of what it holds as in horror movies there's always a a physical/spiritual form of evil that can hurt us. Our trailer denotes a girl walking into the dark woods and being hurt by a mysterious antagonist which would therefore influence the audience eventually that being outside in the dark is dangerous. Th

R&P and creativity

During my first year of studying media, we were given our first preliminary task. The task required us to create a magazine for our college and make it look as similar to real magazines as possible. After months of researching the typical conventions found on magazines and planning my own music magazine, I was able to produce another magazine at a better quality as all the conventions needed were there and I had understood other features that must be considered when making them i.e. Colour scheme, layout of the conventions, typical shots used for the dominant image and so on. The lack of skill when creating my first magazine did affect my creativity because I had never worked on this kind of task therefore my understanding of it was low. Only by practicing did I develop skills which ten helped me create another magazine whilst purposely including conventions. Although my level of understanding was low, I believe there was creativity there because as Gauntlett said "creativity is

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