Evaluation - 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the conventions of real media pruducts?

I have kept mostly to the rules and conventions of a slasher horror. For example, I have kept the usual opening scequence storyline. A teenager in a secluded area, in mine they are in the woods. Usually doing something they shouldnt, like in mine they're smoking weed.

Then they get murdered by a masked murderer, just like in mine. I have a killer who is mysterious and scary, you don't know who he is and he is masked so it makes him even scarier, this is common in a slasher horror.

 I have also got an attractive female character, who is only in the film briefly but it still shows I am sticking to the codes and conventions of a slasher horror as they always have an extremely attractive female.

The main characters are all popular/attractive people who are usually the main characters in these type of films.

I have challenged the conventions because usually they have the first victim as a female which in this century might be seen as sexist so I chose that a male was going to be killer. I also challenged the conventions because I have blended a slasher horror and another horror genre together. The characters have nightmares of how they are going to die and then the killer murders them the way the dreampt it. This is like "Final Destination" and "Scream" mixed together. I didn't want to change it too much as it might effect how well it looks. I decided to keep it roughly the same as typical slashers because I know they are successful and I wanted mine to be as successful as them.