Genre

How have you considered Genre when creating your media text?

I have taken into consideration the stereotypes of a horror Genre and applied them to our magazine front cover and poster. Stereotypes such as; dark colours, which we used in our posters, also the colour of blood read was used on our magazine front cover to relate to this idea of blood and death. some form of monster is also a convention of horror films, such as in old horror films; vampires, zombies and aliens. We took this into consideration by having a zombie like character, made that way through a virus.

What signifiers pin point the Genre?

The catchphrase we used is a signifier of the genre "If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise..' the word surprise especially relates to the horror genre as often horror films have scene to make you jump and give the audience an adrenaline rush. This is created through the element of surprise. The fact it's in black and white with a negative filter applied, really shows the dark nature of the film, along with the sci-fi feel due to the negative. Lastly the fact that we have used a dark mysterious figure, creates an enigma, this really relates to our sci-fi and horror genre giving an eery feel to it.


Have you subverted any conventions? If so why?


We haven't really subverted any conventions, we have stuck quite rigidly to the themes and conventions of a horror. The only way in which we have subverted the genre, is in combining horror with the sub genre of sci-fi. We have done this because the film we based our work on (The Blair Which Project) Is of the same genre. Also we wanted to make ours stand out from other horror films.

What kind of media producer would produce your kind of media text?

The kind of media produce that would produce our type of film, would be;
- Lions Gate entertainment and haxen films.

Does your media text show fluidity of genre or is it similar to older media texts of the same genre? If it is different , how?

Final poster and magazine frontcover

We have tried to imitate the empire magazine front cover as best a possible, we made sure we found the official font for the mast head of the magazine so to make it looked professional. We made sure the colours we used on the magazine corrisponded with the colours we used on the poster so there was an obvious link between the two. We used colours that were typical to the conventions of horror so ; red(blood and anger) black and white (dark and mysterious). The main image on the poster was converted to negative (just like the posters we reasearched) this gave the impresssin that the villian is of supernatural origin. We used photoshop in order to layer scratches over the face, this gave the person in the image an un-human look. The nails and stiching on the mouth almost looks similar to that of frankinstine, creating this idea of a monster.