Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation question 1

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

We used media technologies in the new construction and research in the planning and evaluation stages by using websites such as youtube this helped us as gave us ideas for our horror and so we could see what types of horrors people liked it. It helped us identify conventions normally found in horror and these conventions were lots of screaming, gory images and violence, and it was all set in the night time. We found that the night time was really effective so we decided to film it in the night time. we wanted to make our trailer unique and not just have darkness so we used candles to create a sinister effect and we found that lighting is really important to create a scary effect and using candles really helped to create it. Music is also important for creating tension we used garage band to create this and the music is very dark, and creates good tension for our horror.


Our film poster has a lot of normal conventions we used ideas from the poster from the hills have eyes 2 to create out poster. To make our poster effective and to convey the conventions we used shots that we found was the most eye catching. we used two pictures to show the scenes of the girls being tortured and another of a crazy doctor. To create this poster we used photo shop

The text that we used was thought about carefully, we used the magazine empire to get ideas by looking at there texts and how they used them gave us ideas for ours. We used quotes from news papers to make it seem more realistic, and so it shows that its got good ratings and i high publicity. The tag line we used

our magazine front cover used Empire to get the same sort if layout as we wanted it to look professional. we used large bold headings so it stood out and was eye catching. we used the colour red for out writing as it shows horror to represent our horror as it involves blood and gore.


On our magazine front cover we made sure the name of our film ‘splice” was bold so that it attracted peoples attention. we decided to have to have a picture of a hand and a knife instead of people, we based this on saw’s magazine. This shows its more of a horror and will contain death and pain because of the knife. We used the quote saying ‘ The uk’s no.1 Film magazine for 2010 this made the magazine look more effective as this is what would be used in a real magazine front cover.