Describe How Your Analysis of the Coventions of Real Media Texts Informed Your Own Creative Media Practice. Refer To A Range of Examples In Your Answers To Show How These Skills Developed Over Time.

An understanding of conventions of other similar media products proved to be a vital part in both my foundation and advanced portfolio’s. My foundation portfolio consisted of a horror opening sequence and my advances portfolio consisted of a movie teaser trailer, a poster and magazine cover.

My advanced portfolio consisted of more conventional elements which we included due to the research we did into the horror genre. However, my foundation opening sequence did not have as many conventional elements as it was our first production and our advanced portfolio allowed us to consider and include more detail compared to our past production.

For our opening sequence, our mise-en-scene did not comply with codes and conventions too much, this is why we focused on sound and editing to further represent real media products. The music we used was intense and creepy, suggesting the genre and intentions of characters to the audience; this is similar to the other teen horrors such as Scream during the lead up to a killing.

Final cut pro allowed us to change the colouring of our shot, allowing us to change to greyscale and create a more daunting effect, relating to the genre of our opening sequence.

The location was in the college, this is seen in many teen horror movies which is following the conventions and illustrates the characters age group, furthermore identifying their vulnerability. Teenagers are the most common victims in horrors such as; scream, I know what you did last summer, final destination etc, which is why we used this element in both our media products. Despite the narrative, teenagers always have a higher vulnerability and are a good connection for the audience to relate to as they would be teenagers themselves or possibly have children who are of that age, increasing the suspense.