Question One

"In What Way does your Media product use, develop or challenge conventions and forms of real media products"

Our media product has used many conventions from real media products from using our cliché setting for the movie to the audio we used for our AS media clip.

Characters-
The characters in the the clip are students and a teacher which are common in the teen horror movies like: "The Faculty" (1998) and "When a Stranger Calls" (2006), We chose to have students in the movie, as the audience we are aiming for were in the 15 - 18 age barrier, so I think that the audience would get in to the teenage students mind set and have more feeling for him than a 30 year old man.
We also had a teacher which is classic of the teen horror genre and he was first to get murdered which bizarrely challenged conventions of the teen horror genre as I was searching through the internet and to look for a movie which had a teacher being murdered but there was none, this suggests that the role of the teacher stands for authority and in most teen horrors most of the victims are students and it happens behind the teachers back, this would probably be used as it gives a feeling of uncertainty amounts the audience.

Setting-
The entire opening clip was shot in school while a student is in detention as the target audience would relate can relate to the story and school is some where your would think that there is rules and boundaries, "Prom Night" (2008) majority of the movie was set in a school which gave a certain element of shock and the fact that it took place after school hour gives the feeling of uncertainty.


Props-
Blood was used as a prop and has been used in probably every other horror movie however Mr.Halsey warned us no to use to much fake blood as it would make the clip look unreal and over the top.
The school uniform was used because it would let the audience know about who the students are, and also it shows that the students have less authority than the teacher and if the teacher is murdered that shows that the students chances of survival are minimal, In "The Ring"(2002) there is a part where they find the corpse of a young girl wearing a school uniform and that seems to give people a certain amount of sympathy for the student dying so young.

Audio-
For the audio I was trying to make our movie as cliché as possible as that is a simple and obvious way to give the audience a weird and horrific feel to build up suspense for the killings, Listened to a lot of horror music by going on YouTube and went for classic Horror music like "Jaws"(1975) which is famous for its music and I used the audio as a kind of template by trying to get my music to get louder and quicker as it leads up to the death of the student and the teacher.