How does the media product represent particular social groups?
It is hard to immediately spot a specific social group represented in our opening scene as all the acting is done by people that are teenagers that would not look like this if it was a professionally made opening scene as the actors would be older and properly acted out. The victim is representing a typical girl planning night in between the ages of 18-21. She will come across fairly vulnerable, care free and naive yet outgoing as you see her on the phone chatting to her friend, she is completely unaware of what is going on around her which represents how a vast majority of young girls are today, with the back door unlocked as she is going upstairs to have a bath it shows her carelessness similar to mot teenage girls. The way she acts calm and excited about the evening ahead is exactly how most girls that age would be acting at the weekend however the difference is the situation the victim is about to find herself in is not something that happens often, portraying the lack of awareness and safety teenage girls can put themselves in.
On the other hand you have the murderer, a completely different character. The straight away response to the murderers entrance is that she is a dark and mysterious. The costume worn by the murderer, a long black coat and a trilby creates a ambience or atmosphere where we might subconsciously feel scared or threatened by them. As the person playing the murderer is a girl who is 17 we've chosen to not show as much of her face as possible so that the character is taken more seriously and made to be more mysterious suiting what we are trying to portray her to be.
However i genrally feel that the main social group portrayed is young girls and the nativity and carelessness the show to a variety of people in situation where it can possibly effect them immensely.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Evaluation - Question 1.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention of real media product?
I feel that even though our fim has a set genre for being a murder mystery it has similar aspects to horror and an audience may see it as a mixed genre based film which could show that we have challeneged forms of other media products similar to this. Our film is also set in basic locations such as a garden or a kitchen. Even though in films you may see occasional shots of these locations they are not commonly used in an opening scene. Murder Mystery films researched such as 'Se7en' and 'The sixth sense' are popular films however the locations used in their opening scenes are very different to what we as a group have produced. Also use of characters opening scene are two members of the group means that we look fairly young, this may not be the case in other films under the same genre. Similarly to that of a murder mystery film we have opened the film with suspense as to what may happen next, is she dead? This allows us to build on after the title and for our audience to already put a genre straight to the film. We developed our film in a different concept to other films as the light we used was in normal daylight or in natural light in the room which does not suggest anything spooky or scary instead we use the camera angles and sound to create the wanted effect which could be different to the light in other films.
I feel that even though our fim has a set genre for being a murder mystery it has similar aspects to horror and an audience may see it as a mixed genre based film which could show that we have challeneged forms of other media products similar to this. Our film is also set in basic locations such as a garden or a kitchen. Even though in films you may see occasional shots of these locations they are not commonly used in an opening scene. Murder Mystery films researched such as 'Se7en' and 'The sixth sense' are popular films however the locations used in their opening scenes are very different to what we as a group have produced. Also use of characters opening scene are two members of the group means that we look fairly young, this may not be the case in other films under the same genre. Similarly to that of a murder mystery film we have opened the film with suspense as to what may happen next, is she dead? This allows us to build on after the title and for our audience to already put a genre straight to the film. We developed our film in a different concept to other films as the light we used was in normal daylight or in natural light in the room which does not suggest anything spooky or scary instead we use the camera angles and sound to create the wanted effect which could be different to the light in other films.
Final change
The last change we made was on deciding on our layout of the credits. Rather than having a designed logo for 'Brigade Entertainment' and 'Engaging Films' we as a group have decided to have written across a blank screen in a chosen font. We decided to do this as it looks more sophisticated and the font goes really well with our genre.
Changes made from draft to final cut
* opening scene - panning of murderer walking down the street, stops at a gate and opens it. The murder looks behind to check no one is watching, then eneters through the gate.
* Location changes to the kitchen of the victim. Room is empty, and a phone rings. The victim enters room at the sound of phone ringing, then sits down to awnser. A conversation is taken place.
* Victim gets up and walks out of the kitchen, and upstairs to run her bath.
* The murderer has been waiting outside, and once the victim has gone upstairs trys to enter the house through the backdoor. Discovering the door has been unlocked, the murderer enters.
* Victim is running a bath, when the murderer enters the bathroom behind her. Turning round to see what the noise is, the victim is then grabbed.
* Title screen 'Noir' appears, ending the opening sequence finishing with a gun shot and the sound of the tap dripping.
* Location changes to the kitchen of the victim. Room is empty, and a phone rings. The victim enters room at the sound of phone ringing, then sits down to awnser. A conversation is taken place.
* Victim gets up and walks out of the kitchen, and upstairs to run her bath.
* The murderer has been waiting outside, and once the victim has gone upstairs trys to enter the house through the backdoor. Discovering the door has been unlocked, the murderer enters.
* Victim is running a bath, when the murderer enters the bathroom behind her. Turning round to see what the noise is, the victim is then grabbed.
* Title screen 'Noir' appears, ending the opening sequence finishing with a gun shot and the sound of the tap dripping.
Monday, 28 March 2011
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