Evaluation part 1

Evaluation part 1

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  Evaluation Part 1 AlexHoward
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  In what ways doesyour media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real life media products?  Our media trailer uses many different conventions from regular horror movie trailers. It is set out like a typical horror movie trailer with the suspense and build up at the beginning before moving onto more progressive action. Anybody viewing the product would see it as a typical horror movie trailer and that is what its meant to be.The characters in the trailer are also typical of horror movie characters.We have the butcher who is a typical male hero and the main character.The male hero is found in many horror films and his role is to be manly and fight against the monsters. Our zombies are also typical of horror movie zombies with nothing special about them. For our zombies, we drew influences from movies such as Dawn of the dead and Zombieland. We preferred the classical style of slow moving zombie so that we could focus on the kills and gore effects with some build up.We used typical creepy music to go with the trailer as well because that is a standard convention of horror movies.A feature of zombie films are the creative kills inflicted on the zombies which we decided to make one of the main focuses of our trailer. In filming some creative kills, we could also experiment with gore effects which was important in making a gory horror.We felt that it was important when making a horror movie trailer to try and stick to conventions and not stray too far away from them in order to be able to compare our trailer to other trailers and figure out what looked good and what we could improve on.We decided to develop the character of the male hero further by making him be the cause of the zombie outbreak.We thought that it could create conflict in an actual film and fit nicely as a subplot.We decided to have no spoken acting and none of us are trained actors and we felt that it would lower the overall quality of the film if we started trying to talk in it rather than just focus on the zombies and physical acting.
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  TypicalZombie This is thekind of zombie that we drew inspiration from for our trailer. The typical slow moving zombie found in movies such as Dawn of the dead and Zombieland
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  Question 1 continued  Ourtrailer goes against the normal conventions of horror trailers slightly in that we decided to add some comedy and light- heartedness to the trailer.This steers the trailer towards more of the horror comedy route while keeping some of the normal conventions of horror movies.This can be seen in films such as Tucker and Dale vs Evil and Stitches.We thought that this would make it stand out from just being a regular horror film.This also allowed us to get a little more creative with the scenes and throw in some funny parts to break up the constant action.
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  How did your trailerwork on pacing to create suspense? What trailers did you try to recreate the style of?  We made the pacing of our trailer match the pacing of a typical horror movie trailer. It starts off slow at the beginning, setting up the action and introducing the audience to the story and the beginning of the zombie outbreak. It then starts showing zombie killing and the pacing speeds up with more and more action, fitting the conventions of a normal horror movie trailer.There was no real trailer that we were trying to recreate the style of.We had the idea of making a gory zombie horror movie trailer in our heads and didn’t base the story off of anything and wanted to make it as original as possible. Due to the abundance of zombie movies out there, it was hard to make a completely original zombie movie trailer.
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  What marks your traileras distinctive?  The thing that marks our horror movie trailer as distinctive is the fact that not many people choose to make a gory horror movie and not many people make a zombie one. Most people choose psychological horror but we chose gory horror due to the enjoyment of playing around with gore effects and simulated zombie killing.There are many different zombie and human deaths in our trailer with various weapons and it can be fun to watch and was very fun to film.There are not many other zombie films where you can see a teenage butcher killing zombies.