Evaluation 1.) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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The speed of the shots was also similar to this, so we decided to start with longer shots and gradually decrease the length and amount of shots during the disequilibrium to less than a second which speeds up the pace of the trailer, and follows the dramatic fast paced background music.
When selecting our characters and deciding on the character types to use in our plot, we considered Propp’s character types and carol clover’s final girl theory. Whilst watching other horror trailers, we realised that the most common character types in horror were the surviving final girl, the promiscuous blonde girl, the jock and an evident killer. Following the convention we chose to use these characters in the plot of our trailer. To portray each character type we made sure we used the correct costumes.  The promiscuous girl wore skimpy, revealing clothing; the final girl was covered up more in casual wear, the jock in fashionable lounge wear and the killer in a hoodie, which helps to conceal his identity and plays on the common primal fear of hooded unknown figures. A prop we used during the filming of our trailer was a knife as this was a stereotypical prop paradigm and was most commonly used when watching horror trailers.