In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Froms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

                                                                 

As you can see we have taken some typical conventions of horror and used them in our trailer. The top left shot involved an extreme close-up (ECU) with an added red filter, the connotations are blood, danger and anger. The idea that something demonic and dark is happening. 

Also, with the camera work we had point of view (POV) shots we we are put into the eyes of a monster and also the victim, our two example that we used are the final two on the right hand side. With the monster we had it so that the camera was slow and shaky so we could identify that we are the monster, and to identify that we are put into the eyes of a victim we had a low angle shot shot looking up as the monster seems to loom over you. Also we included a pre tortue shot of a drill going into a hand and we compared this to a shot that is used in the Hostel movie trailer, what we have done is also used a a typical convention of horror trailers, we show the pre-torture shot and it builds tension, because of having the shot so close you would see every gory detail but we then cut to a shot of my face tensing in pain as if the drill was going into the hand but you don't see it but you cab still imagine the drill going in.

Also, on the right hand side we have another POV shot from a "monster" not that we know it is a monster first, the audience is just put into the eye of an onlooker and made to see the people in a voyueristic manner, which again is typical of a horror film.

Some typical conventions of movie trailers that we used are the use of intertitles and a soundtrack with a possible motif. Our intertitles are bold, tall and stand our clearly against the dark background to attract the attention of the audience, we had them fade to reveal the key word much like The Last House On The Left. Much unlike the earlier years of horror movie trailers we didn't have a running voiceover as we feel this distracted the audience from the real drama of what was being portrayed in the visuals. We only had recorded sound clips when intertitles were playing because that speech was key to the plot of the film so it re-inforced emphasis of what the text was saying which is typical of all movie trailers in general as they also help tell the story and give the audience questions

The Spare Room is a teaser trailer, but probably not typical in its length or how much of the plot it gives away. A good example of a teaser trailer is the trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 (click the following link to watch the trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SSc3bmdd8o

This gives nothing away except for the fact that there will be a sequel to the best selling first movie and lasts only one minute and nine seconds in length whereas ours is one minute and 55 seconds and gives away the idea what the plot is, like most British Horror films, that is the genre of horror we wanted to stick too.