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

The Film poster I created also used a lot of conventions of real media products. When conducting my research, I found that Horror film poster's tended to be very dark with only one image standing out from the darkness. I used mirrors(2008) poster as my main influence. It has an image of a screaming girl, bold text which was the film title and the text information at the bottom.
The use of the red and black colour scheme is really useful in allowing the consumer to recognise the genre, even the font of the text creates a sense of fear in the poster.

I feel that my poster has effectively created a sense of verisimilitude and used the conventions of real media products, this is due to the actress coming out of the darkness, the text, layout and colour scheme.



My website is also a good example of how I used conventions of real media products. I took great inspiration from the insidious and women in black website. I found that the key conventions of a horror website, and many film websites in general, were interaction, entertainment, information, darkness and variety. Examples of this from the insidious website is one of the games where you can use your webcam and have a crystal ball reading, the website also allows the consumer to navigate the film setting. my website is not quite as skilled, however it continues to use these conventions. for example; it has a slideshow of behind the scene images, a video of bloopers and information of the actors.