Media Breif

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Media Brief

For my practical production I intend to produce four media prints relevant to the "horror film" genre. I will create a film poster, a DVD cover, billboard and a home page of a website for an advertising campaign promoting a new film being released called when darkness falls.

During the planning stages I will collect examples of the genre i.e. horror movie trailers, film posters, billboards, DVD covers and websites to recognise conventions of the genre in different forms in order to create idea's for the media prints I will produce. The ideas for my practical production will be established from films such as "The haunting" and "cold creek manor" based on the codes and conventions of these successful horror films. Although the storyline to my horror film will be different to those of "the haunting" and "cold creek manor" as the institution often portrays the female characters are playing dominating roles but in reality the institution are reinforcing dominant ideologies by having the male controlling the females. In "the haunting" Eleanor is under the influence of the evil spirit of her father, and in "cold creek manor" although the women knows what is haunting