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Welcome to my blog for A2 media studies! This blog will capture the journey I'm going on where I'll be working in a group to produce a horror trailer, magazine front cover and a poster. I feel quite excited to be doing this because I really like the horror genre and enjoy watching horror films.

I saw my first horror film when I was about 6 years old with my brothers, the movie was called Child's play. I remember laughing instead of being scared of the characters in the film, and I found gore amusing which sounds really weird. I find most horror movies unrealistic so end up laughing at most of them, but I also love the feeling of tension building up because it brings on the emotion of fear.

I'm not really sure what I find frightening, most things intrigue me rather than scare me, for example the fear of the unknown. Within it lies mystery but rather than feeling frightened, it makes me want to know more.

I think all trailers interest me because I feel like they showcase the scenes leading up to the most scariest parts, which are the scenes most tension is built up. Watching horror trailers is fun to me because it makes the films look good and invite you to go and watch the films by giving a 'sneak peak' of the content. Horror film posters are also just as interesting to me. This is because they look cool when there is an ongoing flow between all three products, emphasizing the fact that they are for the same thing.

I feel like I need to explore more ideas to know what kind of vision I want my horror poster and trailer to be like. I very much like the idea of clowns, as they have been around the media quite a lot, with 'killer clowns' being seen in public and with the release of the new movie 'IT', it seems like a good idea. However I would more so want to create something original; something that's never been seen before but I know that will tale a lot of time and effort which I'm willing to put in.

This year I'm excited most by the production work that my group and I will do as I know the end result will be worth the work we will do leading up to/in the production, because we are aiming to put in as much effort as we can to make our products seem as realistic as possible. It'll be nice to see all our products tie in with one another in the premier that will take place when everyone has completed their work.