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By Harley Angus
In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I followed the conventions for my poster, according to the principle of thirds, taking into
account the layout, images used and desired colour schemes.
A tilt up of the dad, showing that Isla is crawling to him, though the fact that the
camera tilts up, shows Isla looking up to him and the dominance that her Dad has
holding his control over her.
In this scene, we wanted to show the
contrast between the family being happy
and the evil in the daughter. This is a
convention of horror films, as it helps the
trailer pick up the pace and the audience
see the juxtaposition between the
personalities of the character.
Breaking conventions of the time of a trailer, though the dark knight broke
these conventions and was a very successful film. So even though ours
wasn’t conventional of a horror film trailer.
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?