Evaluation Q1

Our product challenges many forms of conventions in films as firstly, we used a small girl in our film. This goes against the existing conventions of a film trailer as they usually have a male adult antagonist, This means that the audience will feel something for the antagonist origionally at the start of the film, but eventually be scared of her as she is changed from the sweet, young girl into a killer. we also used a real weapon as the few other films that include young girls as the antagonist are supernatural and use supernatural killing methods such as "The Ring"'s soul-suck to kill her victims. (Post about the Characters)

The magazine uses all of the usual magazine conventions that we found in film magazines, such as empire and Total Film. The conventions in our magaizne were largly unchanged from these usual conventions found in these giants, we decided that changing the conventions would ward off the audience as they would not feel comfortable feeling a new magazine, than pick up a new one.

Our media can be used to challenge forms and conventions of real media products as the main antagonist in our film is the young innocent girl that you see at the start of the trailer. You give a huge amount of sympathy to her because she is killed in the trailer and you also have many shots of her in advertising looking innocent. She is then portrayed through the end of the trailer as evil. This shocks the audience as there is no protagonist in our trailer. This is challenging the conventions of the horror genre and real media products as they usually have a set antagonist, protagonist and victims. Our product has no protagonist so evil is winning; this is different to the other existing media.

· The media products use the form of the horror genre as the trailer uses chilling music and sound effect to get the atmosphere correct.