Evaluation

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

• Exorcism of Emily Rose -Enhancement of the eyes, use of traditional/church-like soundtrack

• Gothika - sharp movement of walking in the forest.

• The Ring - The long dark hair and the crawling movement

• Haunting of Molly Hartly - The concept of possession

• Carrie - The bath scene

• Nosferatu - Use of light and dark

• Psycho - Theory of psychologically damaged adults (the mother)

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre - use of weaponary

Conventions from Empire Magazine

• Extreme close up shots

• Using a basic colour palate

Adapting the style of the featured movie on front cover

• Keeping fonts simple (using only two types of fonts)

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

What have you learnt from your

audience feedback?

The Negative

How did you use new media technologies in the

construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

• Font - The Summoning (Open Classic)
• Actress - (Same main character presented throughout)
• Eyes (Enhanced and luminated)
• Colour palate (Basic - white, red and black)
• Situation - spiritual
• Clothing (mise-en-scene - The white dress and long black hair)
• Similar tagline (The words 'return' and 'mother')
• Light and dark (Light excentuating Elizabeth)

Trailers:

The setting is in the light

The crab position from Exorcism of Emily Rose

General Iconography:

• Blood
• Knives

Todorov's Theory

Challenged Conventions:

• The setting in light
• Protagonist being the only character in trailer
• Prolonged shot of walking
• Shaky panning of camera
• Many extreme close ups throughout

Evaluation

• Extreme close ups
• Basic colour palate
• Simple fonts

Magazine Cover

Less Content revealed on front page.

Extreme Close ups throughout

Linking tagline with both the masthead and and the movie title.

Posters

Using different functions

of the camera such as focus

Conventions developed from :

• Exorcism of Emily Rose - the foggy atmosphere.

• Gothika - The basic colour palate - white, red and black.

• The Exorcist - Use of light - the light hits Elizabeth.

Using social networking sites to understand target audience better

Using search engines

to research and analysing other media texts such as magazines and posters

Analysing other media blogs

Using Prezi.com to present

my evaluation

Researching expert reviews

on the horror genre

"I liked the poster as the

effects worked well"

Using youtube to view

other trailers

"I liked everything about it"

"The effects were great"

"Really liked how you made

her eyes so luminous on the

magazine cover. Very Haunting"

• Exporting and importing files
• Video effects and transitions
• Audio transitions and effects
• Editing: Speeding/slowing down, brightness and contrast and colour change

Adobe Photoshop

• Cropping with lasso tool
• Blending
• Layering
• Colour change - brightness and contrast
• Filtering
• Adding text

"It was too short"

"Too much in the woods, she looks like a scarecrow"