In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challange forms and conventions of real media products?

These images below are all stills from both my trailer and currently existing trailers. The images that are shown on top are stills from existing horror trailers, and the images below are stills from my horror trailer. I explored the trailer and horror conventions of the stills and how they linked to one another.

1. The first image is of a slam of a door closing. This is a typical shot that can be found within horror trailers. We particular liked this shot within our trailer as it adds speed to the trailer and also causes suspicion to what is going on behind the door. I also like how both of the settings that the doors are shown in within the trailer are very light. This almost creates a sense of binary oppositions of a strange light setting in a horror trailer.

2. This second shot is more focused on the technical codes of horror trailer, as we use a  close-up of the main protagonist's face. This enables us to understand the feelings and emotion of the main protagonist and too almost understand their thoughts on what is happening.

3. In this third shot from both mine and the existing trailer, our character within the shot is seen in a bath, which we assume she is about to drown. In terms of horror conventions this links into the idea of the setting of where the main incident happens. This shot is particularly strange and links in with the idea of it being psychological.  This was filmed in the setting of a bathroom, which was the setting where the main storyline developed from.

4. This fourth shot contains both characters approaching a door. This creates tension and fear into the shot to what could be behind the door. In both shots the door is seen as the main focal point.  This was an over the shoulder shot, so that we were able to what what was going on and so we were also able to see the main character at the same time, allowing us to see their movement towards the door.

5. Within this shot, both characters from both trailers are having some form of interaction with a mirror. Mirror's are a typical thing to find in horror trailers as they can be seen as very abstract and strange. Mirrors also imply the sense of a split personality, and shattered mirror can connote the psychotic fragmenting of the characters personality. The setting in which these have been filmed in are in a bathroom. Many shots for horror can be filmed in bathrooms as they are known to be very small and isolated which could create fear and panic, the mirrors also add to the iconography of the bathroom setting.

6. This shot is of a tap. This shot is very strange and almost relates back to the concept of binary oppositions. Taps are not typically a scary item that could be seen as horrifying, however the fact that they are not scary could imply that they are. The taps are the main focal point of each shot and could be seen as quite abstract, and also link in with the horror conventions as being iconography to the setting of this part of the trailer.

7. Within these shots, there is a character in both, about to open a door. This shot was filmed as the character opened the door very, very slowly to create tension to what will happen next, and this has been done as a close-up in terms of technical codes.

8. These shots here are of the faces of the characters in the water whilst they are drowning. Both images contain the same setting and in terms of technical code are extreme close ups to the faces. This enables us to see the struggle and almost pain in their faces. This is a very strange shot and as part of the trailer conventions, it will gain the attention of the target audience to what the film is about. This is an extreme close up shot which enables us to understand the feeling and emotion within the characters expressions, which is then linked with the storyline at the current time within the trailer or film.