Evaluation Question 1:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I have chosen to screen shot a selection of different conventional moments from a variety of trailers that all fall under the genre of psychological thriller.

1. This is a screen shot from the start of ‘American Psycho’. I chose this shot because it instantly shows the audience a key character from within the film which is then continued throughout the whole trailer; making it clear this is the main character.

2. This is an effective shot from ‘Taxi Driver’, the reason I find this shot so effecti

ve is because the low angle makes the character look more dramatic and daunting without explaining or showing why.

3. The location shot from ‘Identity’ is a dramatic way to set the mise-en-scene of the film as the lights being a greenish colour in the dark, also this shot is shown through white flashes and the lighting of the

word also is flickering quickly.

4. The location used in the establishing shot for ‘Hide and Seek’ is highl

y different to the one used in identity, yet is still as effective as it starts to bring intrigue to how the voice over and following shots of the country side link together.

5. The shot I’ve taken from ‘The Orphan’ shows the thriller/horror side to th

e genre more than the psychological area. This makes it effective as it makes it clear to the audience what the main genre is without having to watch either the whole trailer or the film itself.

6. The shot from ‘2012’ works well as it shows a key member from the film, or at least a character the audience can perceive as a key member without actually showing the audience who they are.

7. I have chosen this shot from the film ‘Transsiberian’ as it again shows the horror portrayed throughout the trailer. The dark lighting in the film also enhances the tension in this section enforcing the genre for the film.

8. This shot from ‘The Game’ shows a character we as an audience assume is the mai

n character and therefore makes the audience question why he is falling next to a building at a great speed.

9. This shot from ‘Phone booth’ is effective, especially for my film as it doesn’t show who the main character is talking to on the phone but rather just shows things from the outsider’s point of view.

I then chose a number of different shots from my own trailer and have analysed them in comparison to shots from existing media texts.

1. This shot from my trailer I feel is effective as since it is at the start of the trailer it instantly links the audience with the main character. Also it shows her confusion and shock from the beginning.

2. This is another shot showing the panic and worry from the main character, the reason it looks pale and whitened out is because it is a quick clip shown in between two white flashes. The reason I have chosen to use a lot of white flashes within my trailer is because it keeps a fast pace in the trailer.

3. This shot shows the main character turning around whilst running, the reason I chose to put this in is because it follows the convention of having the character knowing/seeing something that the audience is unable to know and therefore creates a sense of mystery and intrigue.

4. This establishing shot of the location is important when creating a media product, especially one within moving image media products, so I have tried to include a varying number of these where I feel they add to the trailer. The reasons they are able to add to the impact I am creating with my teaser trailer is as it shows that it is set in a conventional location for horror films whilst still being an unusual location to find yourself in.

5. This clip is again another quick shot. This time it is of the main character yet it is clear to see that it isn’t from the same time that rest of the clips are from, this shows that the storyline is more complex than her just being chased in a forest.

6. This is a still from a clip where the character is rocking back and forth whilst being sat against a tree. The effectiveness of this is that it shows how scared this character is, without having to give away anything else from the storyline.

7. This is the first shot we have the girl running; I wanted to wait until near the end of the teaser trailer to show her running for the first time. The reason I chose to do this is because I wanted it to link into where the trailer as a whole picked up pace, so it would link in with the speed of cuts, music and also the volume.

8. This is the last clip of her facial expressions close up during the trailer, the reason I chose to have this one as the last close up is because it shows that she is scared but also because it’s shows her scanning around as though she is completely lost, and therefore shows her vulnerability; an element I believe to be key in psychological thrillers from my research.