Tadiwa's A2 media

This is a preliminary poster that I have made in class, in which I looked at the conventions of a successful horror poster and have applied them to a 'faux' poster where we had to come up with a word and make a horror poster using that word as a prompt.  What I love about this poster is how simple it is, in which the main image is simply an unnaturally coloured eye, it goes with the title seeing as vision is associated with eyes. Also, the unnatural colour of the eye can be associated with the horror genre because of how surreal it looks and how the "unnatural" is a major trope to the genre. Furthermore, the colours are contrasting seeing as white is the lightest tone and purple is a fairly dark colour, by the two colours contrasting each other, the main focus will be towards the purple iris. However, white is not a conventional colour for a horror poster, whereas black is known to be the most used due to the connotations with the colour, in which black repres...

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Media text, whether it is horror or romance, are open to multiple readings. Horror films are considered to be deliberately ambiguous in which the audience who watches them are more likely to misunderstand the whole plot (such as Babadook or The shining..)   Stuart Hall, a cultural theorist and a professor of sociology, looks at the role of audience in the interpretation of media texts by different social groups. Hall came up with a model suggesting 4 ways in which we may read a media text: Preferred/dominant: This is when the audience will prefer to read the text (in our case, a horror film), in the way the producer has intended them to. So that the meaning is clear, natural and transparent to do so. Oppositional: This is when there is a disagreement with the ideology/film from the genuine idea, so they reject the reading. Negotiated: This looks at how the audience would work out the meaning of the film with the concepts that they disagree with or they don't unde...

Doing some research, I have looked at some horror auteurs. One example, is John Carpenter, who is a populist film director who has been heavily influenced by 50s Sci-fi and horror films and is well known for his horror films such as the "Halloween" series and "The thing" (1982). What makes his films fall into the Auteur category: Entrapment: Characters or a group of characters are trapped either physically or metaphysically Carpenter's heroes: Defined by action and has an ideology that all people are defined by what they do Anti-authority: Carpenter's films disrupt authority. Likes to put humanity into perspective: There is more on Earth than we know Genre: Follows the syntactic /semantic approach to genre and will allow generic cross over A good example of Carpenter's film that supports him as an auteur is, "The thing": Looking at the Dogme 95' and the Vow of chastity, it has got me thinking about whether I should app...

In regards to my film, I will be using a small budget. This is only because I'm barely a student, not just because I'm making a horror short. So, for me to work on a big budget film, is fairly close to impossible. But there are many softwares out there that I can use to make this film look like a big budget film and that's what I plan to do. If all works out to plan, that is.