Personal Reflection On A Scary Bedtime Story

In my Rhetoric in Practice project, I decided to write about a scary bedtime screen-play in order to deliver a specific message to the specific audience group that I targeted. I combined conventions from the horror genre in order to emphasize my message about the vulnerability of children to crimes and the insecurities that we as adults provide for the children’s safety. My main genre would be considered as a bedtime story and a combination of the horror genre which in concept does not go along together, but was successful in orienting my main message towards the intended audience. The first reason I choose this message was merely because I felt sorry for the children living in the current society for their disadvantage of being incapable to go out side and enjoy the weather like I did when I was a child. I believe that the time that children can spend outdoors is of course an advantage …show more content…
As much as they were different I had to find the perfect combination of both genres to ideally convey my message towards the younger audience group. I ran into trouble from the beginning where I learned that bedtime stories do not contain most of the conventions from the horror genre like death and crimes, and contained opposing conventions like hope, and contents that lift the spirit (Sweetland). However, in order to maintain the horror genre, I did leave concepts of mystery and only dark-related dictions to give the connotations of the scary feeling. At the same time, I had to end the script in a “happy ending”, as people say in children’s stories or films, as the main convention of a bedtime genre where children fall asleep with the main character solving the problem that arise in the story (Sweetland). Through the selection of my genre I choose my audience specifically to fit the boundaries of how my message would be