Evaluation Question 1

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

Paragraph 1:
In paragraph 1 you should outline how you are going to answer this question. Choose nine screen frames from real horror film trailers and nine from your group's teaser trailer which are similar in terms of mise-en-scene, shot sizes, camera angles, colour design, framing, characters used, graphics (text) etc. Explain the similarities and your reason for choosing to use and/or develop theses conventions.  (tip: to make your 9 screen frames, you can screen grab from YouTube then and assemble them as a single .jpeg in Photoshop).

Paragraph 2:
Explain the purpose of teaser trailers in terms of marketing. Also explain their generic conventions in terms of narrative structure, mise-en-scene, camera work, sound and editing. Explain the maker's preferred reading by the audience. Make a comment about the need to follow general conventions whilst also pushing boundaries.

Paragraph 3:
Place your 9 screen shots from a real trailer next to the 9 screen shots from your trailer and below these, explain how they relate, what you were trying to emulate, develop, etc. Also evaluate how effective you think your shots were compared to the professional ones.

Paragraph 4:
Explain your use of sound (and lack of dialogue), comparing it with that used in real horror teaser trailers.

Hint: Check out the 'Good blogs from last year' listed in the right column of my blog to see how others have answered this question.