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

My media product initially tried to challenge the conventions of real media products as it I tried not to use conventional tools related to my genre, however while creating my product I was compelled into following conventions as many of the tools created the integrity for my theme and without it, would cause my audience to fail at identifying my genre thus failing to portray my media product correctly

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My chosen genre was horror comedy I chose this specific genre because I wanted to challenge myself and do a duo genre.

Even though my genre was horror comedy, it had a strong zombie theme at heart, which many people would classify as a zombie comedy rather than a horror comedy however I choice to still stick with it being a horror comedy with a zombie theme.

conventions of zombie films is that there is usually an a zombie apocalypse with the human race in danger of being extinct and they are few survivors who come together; the lead role (usually a man) an attractive female, a generic moron, a “bad ass” and other who are there for certain doomed or to be turned, this also include friends and families

However my production challenge this convention when it come to the zombie aspect of things, my media product is not set in any apocalyptic event and where in conventions of real media they are a thousands of zombies my product only has one, which give her an importance. This is a unique trait as zombie are seen more to have a collectivist nature rather than individualistic

On the other hand it does follow the convention of the contagious bite or feeding of a zombie which turns the victims into a zombie

Conventions of Horror Comedy

• Unexpected Situation• Ordinary characters• A Source of Fear

In my production they is a unexpected situation is where my characters’ girlfriend is a zombie and he has to deal with the facts and also with the reaction of his peers likewise with real media product ‘Shaun of the dead’ Shaun has to deal with the realisation of an apocalypse and survive it. it evidential that I am following this aspect of conventions concerning horror comedy.

Most of my main characters are ordinary as they are average day to day characters with nothing really special about them this follows conventions of real media concerning horror comedy

• A source of fear is also included as my zombie eats the brain of her boyfriend’s best friend.

SETTINGS

• I set my production in a modern house which was normal house inside and out, this follow the convention of horror comedy as it links to unexpected events in unusual environment

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• The music I used did not go with what was going on in my scene to add the comedic side of things , this is ironic and was purposely done because it is a part of comedy and postmodern. I got my idea to use the Michael Jackson thriller song in my movie because it related to the fact I was using zombies, I got this from the film American werewolf in London, where the soundtrack is linked to the werewolf theme. For example Bobby Vinton’s version of Blue moon, Van Morrison’s moon dance and bad moon rising. Also like my film AWIL uses happy songs in bad/weird situations

• Normally in horror comedy convention even when the main character is the villain, the main focus of the plot is the followed lives of the victims of the said antagonist, however, my production follows the life of the antagonist mostly and sees life in her point of view

In horror comedy usual conventions regarding characters is that females are seen as weak ditsy damsel in distress that need saving by there male counter-part because the have been taken g by the antagonist

I challenge that convention by making the female the monster, who is attacking and taking the man as hostage and making him the ‘damsel’, however it only challenges old age convention concerning females, new age films like Jennifer’s body and the exorcist have opened a gateway for evil female characters to be the monsters.

Conventions of a teaser trailer

From my threes analysis of my teaser trailers, I notice there was production companies on each one, right at the beginning, so I followed this convention and came up with a production company and put it in the beginning.

Real Media Production Companies

My Media Production Company

All the title of the films’ name in the teaser trailer came near the end, this is another convention I followed as I also did this with my film names at the near end

Real Media

My Media Products’ Name

The date of the real media product always came at the end I follow this, however I didn’t give a date but still followed convention by saying coming soon.