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During the summer, me and my group made a horror trailer about the illness of a young teenage girl who in the end becomes her own worst enemy and loses her sanity without her medicine. When looking at the audience theories, there are either two ways in which we can watch the media; passively, or actively. In addition, Stuart Hall stated that there are three types of audiences', those who accept and agree with the reading (The Dominant Reading), those who question the text (The Negotiated Reading) and finally, those who reject the piece, (The Oppositional Reading). When looking at my summer trailer I can discuss the use of the Hypodermic needle/Effect model, even though my trailer does not include an extremely controversial topic, it still addresses the sensitive subject of people dealing with mental health issues. Therefore, if people watch this they can be influenced to believe that all people suffering with mental problems they are mad, crazy psychopaths which is ultimately not t...

Within this essay, I am going to speak about my summer trailer that was based around a young teenage girl who started to become her own demon within when she ran out of her pills, we decided to base this in the psychological sub genre as it plays on the fear in our minds. The genre theory was ultimately started by a theorist named Steve Neale who discussed the idea that genre means a 'type' or category where things are placed based on their stereotypical conventions, which can also lead further into sub-genres where these codes and conventions are much more specific in order to make them recognisable to the public. Therefore, our trailer was succesful with this theory due to the use of mise-en-scene within the trailer. For example, the props such as dolls and knives are distinct opposites and the subversion of the childhood innocence from the dolls with the use of the object portrayed as phallic and violent imagery is something that is stereotypical of the horror genre. More ov...

Within this essay, I am going to base my analysis and include examples from last years trailer, 'The Collector'. Firstly, Clover talks about the representation of the 'Final Girl' within horror films, this applys mainly to the sub-genre of a slasher due to the fact that these types of movies are generally centered around the male dominance over a young female. When referencing this to the trailer of, 'The Collector' it is not clear that there is a final girl seen within any part, therefore, from this we can denote that the film is does not seem to a part of the slasher sub genre. Even though the trailer does use a teenage female protagonist as it's main character this links into another theory but not Clover's. Next, I am going to look at the theory created by Dobbs with the ideas around 'Scream Queens' in horror, first of all, these stock characters are generally blonde and are only seen on camera being attacked and victimised, hense the name ...