Question 1A

A good understanding of conventions of real media texts played a pivotal role in both my foundation portfolio by creating an opening sequence for a horror film and in my advanced portfolio by creating a horror movie teaser trailer.

Studying real media texts gave me conventional ideas on what to include in my own production. Costume were a key point in AS but it did not go to how we planned.  When it came to costumes and props we used a teacher dressed in casual clothes. The girl had nothing special about her and they were both plainly clothed. Being re introduced to them we see the girl has changed her hair and the teacher has changed his clothes to show he has actually changed his attire for a reason. This confuses the audience in why he actually did this. This was done to show a space in time on the opening sequence.

In A2 I done more research on costume, how the character fits with the costume, body posture and body language. We used stereo typical teenage boys to relate to the target audience. The typical cap, shirt, jeans and trainers were what we chose to keep our characters wearing.

In AS I made a opening sequence to a film, the way our film opened, the audience would know straight away what would happen. The effects make it visible that the man Is the killer/kidnapper. We tried not to make it complicated as it is only a opening sequence. When the soundtrack is introduced we notice that you become more interested in the film. This worked on the audience we showed our film to. it started off with the girl leaving college and the teacher slowly following. Progressing in A2 made me realise some of the creativity could have been expanded. 

In A2 i made a teaser trailer.Teaser trailers are made using various fast shots to build the tension in the audience. This is done to stay within the generic codes and conventions of teaser trailers. We had to create a 30-90 second teaser trailer, using the generic conventions of fast paced shots, soundtrack, dark settings but not too dark.

Overall my skills developed as I done more research into real media texts which enabled me to be creative in my ideas................