Evaluation of Research and planning

In what ways does your media product, use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of the horror genre?

•For our horror trailer, we decided to use 3 different settings as it would have bored the audience out if we had only used 1 location. The 3 settings used are an office, a hospital and a bedroom.

We chose the main setting to be in a hospital because it would help create an atmosphere to our audience. We were also inspired by films such as the eye, Halloween and the unborn.

Within our trailer we tried to repeat the traditional conventions which would be found in other horror trailers such as low key lighting, gore and quick shots. We definitely used low lighting in the hospital scene and blood and scabs during the torture scene. The mise en scene in our trailer such as the costumes, blood and scabs went well with our main character, the antagonist, Maya.

When we first researched into trailers, our first idea of using a masked villian like films such as the strangers or Friday 13th, however we felt that we wanted to add something different. So, instead we never used a mask, we ended up using no mask and just adding more scabs and gore to it.

In terms of challenging conventions, we noticed the ages in other groups were mostly characters our ages, ours are characters who were older and mature. As we were aiming at people ages 15+ it would definitely attract an older audience.