Deception slideshow
- 1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCTS DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?
- 2. 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’
- 3. 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
- 4. 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.
- 5. This is our finished title…..
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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.
- 8. 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.
- 9. 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.
- 10. 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.
- 11. 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.
- 12. 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.
- 13. 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.
- 15. 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.
- 16. 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.