In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Forms and conventions are the things that make a media product recognisable. Horror forms and conventions, as previously researched, include macro elements such as enigmatic narratives and hegemonic representation of gender as well as micro elements such as low key lighting, eerie non-diegetic sounds and jump cuts. There are also forms and conventions for individual media products themselves which need to be followed.
Film trailer conventions include:
- Cast and production company details
- Film title
- Release date
- Short in length
- Sounds appropriate to the genre portrayed
- Slow pace amounting to a fast paced montage
Film poster conventions include:
- Film title
- Credits
- Main image
- A hook/tagline
- Release date
And film magazine cover conventions include:
- Masthead
- Anchorage text
- Cover lines
- Star burst
- Barcode
- Issue date
- Price
- Sky line
- Main image
In the slide show below I have evaluated how I have either used, developed or challenged horror forms and conventions in my own three media products.
Shannon Cotton 