The media products I have created use the forms and
conventions of the “adventure” genre; all five of my products have met the
codes and conventions that make up this genre. The codes and conventions that
create the form of the adventure genre for a film trailer include; booming
music, film title at end of trailer, narration and fast paced music.
My film trailers all have made use of the codes and
conventions that make this genre, the use of loud booming music was used to
create the action and adventure themed sound track to build up the hype and suspense
that adventure film trailers try to make. I had created the sound track with
the combination of several music tracks from the band “Two Steps from Hell” and
the theme song from the popular game “Skyrim”, I spent several hours to create
the sound tracks present in my film trailers by using my editing software, Sony
Vegas movie studio HD platinum 11.0, to use selected segments of the tracks and
formed the music for my trailers which also follows the convention of film
trailers having fast paced music for the building of excitement and thrill.
Film trailers of this particular genre are conventionally
fast paced and full of quick action shots that display the main cast for the
audience to have a basic understanding of who the main characters are, my
trailers have followed this by having quick shots most of which are action
shots displaying the thrill and excitement that the film has to offer the
audience. The convention that adventure film trailers have many action shots is
used, however I have also broke this convention by creating a more abstract part
to my trailer because I have made the cinematic ending to the trailer on the one-minute
and two-minute trailers. I have done this because it delivers a more mysterious
and appealing ending to the trailers which attract the audience’s attention
more, this has been proven by my audience feedback where several have stated
that was one of their favourite parts of the trailer because it was different
and broke the conventions of a conventional film trailer of this genre.
The codes and conventions don’t apply the same to the
ancillary texts due to the difference between print and video texts; however the
ancillary texts do follow codes and conventions that are set for a film poster
and film magazine front cover, by basing my front cover design on the film magazine
“Empire” I was able to create a front cover magazine that represents the
adventure genre by the use of a dark background and an explosion in the
background to create an image that has a thrilling and action appearance making
it more appropriate for the purpose of presenting the film.
The film poster was made in a similar way to the front cover,
by using the websites “IMDB” and “Empire” I was able to analyse the codes and
conventions of the adventure film posters and create a poster that was similar to
the front cover but made more appropriate for the use as a film poster.
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