Horror Blogspot

I have developed my research & planning skills across the 2 years with the invention of my AS music magazine and the making of a horror trailer. I understand that research is important as you obtain information which benefits you while the production. Also, through research, you are able to create a product which meet expectations of a target audience as you know the codes and conventions which are required. In AS, my task was to imitate a real media magazine to demonstrate if I’m able to create a magazine that is not my own. There was no research or planning done as the only thing I had to do was to recreate the magazine. My preliminary task was to devise a front cover for a college magazine to illustrate my understanding of the conventions. I was given a template to utilise but I had to learn the different conventions of a magazine such as cover lines, masthead etc. Through this, I learnt the basic structure of a magazine. There was no planning done for the audience as the t...

Media Language is the codes of a specific text. It's a way in which the meaning of a media text is conveyed to the audience. Camera, sound editing, Mise-en-scene, semiotics & ideologies are all used to demonstrate meaning to the audience. In this essay, I'm going t o analyse and evaluate how technical, symbolic, audio codes and written codes have been used effectively in Terror House’s trailer ‘Bedeviled’ Symbolic codes refers to lighting, colours, key signifiers and mise-en-scene which is used to convey a certain theme, the character itself and the genre. In the Bedeviled, the antagonist’s clothes were either black or white. The colour black has connotations of death and evil. Black is a mysterious colour associated with fear and the unknown. This suggests to the audience that this character will die because the colour of clothing revolves around death. Later, the antagonist is wearing a white hospital gown. The colour white has a positive connotation to it. It connot...