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

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

Length of Trailer• The normal conventions of a teaser trailer are that they are usually

between 30 and 90 seconds long. Our trailer is 72 seconds long, similar to the teaser fro trainspotting, which is 69 seconds

Editing style • The editing style for a Thriller teaser trailer is usually fast paced,

occasionally including a montage of shots, our trailer flips between two scenes, and then ending in a montage of quick shots, this is to create suspense. Our trailer is conventional in this sense.

Use of Sound

• Our trailer is conventional in the way that it uses voiceover, this is a common element of a teaser trailer, especially in the crime genre. An example of this is the Wolf of Wall Street trailer.

Text/Graphic Elements• A convention used in almost every teaser trailer, is the use of text to

explain what is happening or give extra information. Our trailer uses text to give a premise to the film and to explain to the viewer what the story line entails.

Film posterLayout conventions of a film poster are film title, billing block, lead cast, director and sometimes some reviews of the film and their ratings. Our poster contains all of these elements.Our poster is pretty similar to the Limitless film poster as it contains a lot of the same elements like the main character being off centre etc.

Film MagazineFor our magazine, we decided to come up with our own brand as we felt that our image did not fir the converntions of the likes of Empire or Little white lies. Our magazine cover has some of the traditional conventions of a magazine, for example, where the title is on the page and the amount of text. We have also put news about other films that we have created in media, as most magazines do not just focus on one film. We have kept the same font for the title of our film as our poster and trailer, to keep the theme the same for all of our products.

Institutional conventions

• Our film comes across as a British independent film, which is what we had aimed for at the start. You can see this as it has almost no special effects and looks as if the budget was not very big, like a Hollywood blockbuster.

Genre Conventions

• I think our film has a very clear genre as it follows the conventions of a crime/drug thriller. The part that shows the genre the most is when, in the trailer, the character is seen holding, then eating, a pill. Also the end of our trailer is a montage to create suspense like in a thriller.