Question 2In what ways does your media product use,

develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

During the initial planning we didn’t want to mimic any mainstream horror movies such as Friday the 13th or A nightmare on Elm Street due to high feeling of cliché that is already flowing quite strongly in the horror genre or in general the movie industry right now.

• We didn’t want to drag ideas and conventions out of the larger films just to have in ours for the sake of having them, we wanted to create an original project that didn’t have a killer slashing every character into pieces or a possession corrupting many characters and the aim to end the ghost/demon.

My group created a character juxtaposed to that of a character likely to be butchered in a horror film, although we had kept some features such as the feeling of vulnerability and the feeling of dread.

• The characters (teenagers in horror films) often have a great deal to say and most of the time offer comic relief to the scenes such as insulting each other or laughing at something irrelevant to the plot, however the character in my group’s project is strictly silent and brings forth the idea that she is all alone or at least that is what she believes.

• In the horror institution slasher films normally have blood and gore in bucket loads, however sometimes I believe that it just takes that sense of realism away and that is not what I want in my project. So as to contradict the normality of what is considered usual in the horror genre when it comes to killers my short scene has no actual death scene as to leave an open ending in the piece and force the audience to have to interact just that tiny bit as to make my project not entirely passive which is almost always the case when it comes to film and a lot of forms of media.

• One thing that is borrowed from real media products is that of the setting, it takes place at a large abandoned building just as night is about to fall which signifies danger in pretty much all horror films but specifically in films which contain characters such as the Wolfman or Dracula, also the large abandoned building is a popular setting the real horror media to give a sense of aloneness and abandonment.

• The sound effects used in this such as banging and scraping are also very common in real media as they are the basic senses of an unfriendly presence in a horror movie and they help signify danger and just generally another presence.