How does your media product represent particular social groups?
What groups have I chosen to show in this film? teenagers, male ,female
How have I shown them?
costume - wearing stereotypical clothing
mise en scene - setting - stereotypical of male teenagers as he is in a place where he shouldn't be. The sign saying 'no trespassing' symbolises that he is up to mischief and he is responsible for himself getting captured.
Dialogue - swearing
Makeup - shows that he has got into trouble
Setting - graffiti - displays youth in this sort of setting/environment
Young Girl challenges the stereotype of teenage girls, she opposes the stereotype of vulnerability and innocence.
Are these choices controversial or stereotypical? Stereotypical
Why did I chose to represent them in this way? Why did I think this would be a good idea and how did my research of representation in horrors inform my production?
What stereotypes am I using/challenging?
What messages am I trying to convey to the audience and why?
Where else has your research informed you that these stereotypes exist?
You may wish to considered how filming in Britain has impacted these representations?
Would you expect them to be different to those perhaps in a mainstream Hollywood thriller?
Have I created a positive or negative representation of that social group? How do you think this affects the audience? Negative representation of male teenagers .
Reference to my audience research - what did they want to see
Did you provide for your audience or did you intend to educate them? why?
Friday, 27 February 2015
Evaluation Question 1 Essay
In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- Demonstrate understanding of conventions of genre
Importance of Genre
Genre is very important in making films for several reasons associated with various stages and roles in creating films. Firstly, genre is vital for production companies as it allows them to create a film which is specific to a genre and also allows them to target a specific audience. Allowing them to receive the best possible feedback for their film. By knowing the genre of the film they want to create, they will be able to follow the specific conventions of their chosen genre to make a successful film. They will be able to identify and establish suitable costumes, make-up, sound, setting etc. Links with genre specific actors, producers, directors, writers, costume/make-up artists etc. will be formed and therefore allow the production companies to know all what they need to include in there opening to create the most successful film. By doing so, more people will be attracted to their film as they will know roughly on what the film will consists of and therefore will know whether the film is suitable for them. As more people will know whether they will like the film, the company will receive more financial income and make the maximal profits. From the point of view of the audience genre is also specifically important as it allows them to identify whether the film is suitable for their preferences in what they aspire the film to be like. It also provides them with anticipation and confidence in what the film will be like and therefore willing to pay money to go and attend the screening.
- Analyse research with screenshots - refer to real media products
- What impact did the research have on my ideas and final film
Allowed me to identify conventions of our genre and what is included in successful films.
- How does my film conform to conventions of my genre? How? Pick examples and use screenshots.. use screenshots from my film and real films to show this.
Mise en scene
The location which we have chosen to shoot our film is a derelict building near an abandoned radio station. This is stereotypical of the significance of settings that is included in horror movies.The fact that the building is abandoned, atmospheres of isolation can be created, creating a sense of vulnerability which could be attached to the protagonists.
Make-up will also play a significant role in our opening in making our main character seem as vulnerable as possible. We will apply specific make-up to make it look as the character is dirty and seem to be injured by adding several cuts and bruises. This can add a realistic factor to our opening and can result in the opening looking more professional. The association with the injuries can conclude in the audience forming stronger connections as his vulnerability will increase the sympathy felt and therefore the audience will want him to survive.
We will involve many stereotypical props of the horror genre into our film opening. Firstly, we selected to use old china dolls to play a significant role in our opening. We will be placing them around the scene. This also familiarises ourselves with the trends and conventions of the latest blockbusters as films such as Annabelle, The Conjuring and The Woman in Black have dolls as a main feature in their films. Other props that we will introduce will be a wooden chair, a black bag, a tape recorder, a mirror and a rope. -Props - blood, rope, chair are stereotypical of the horror, implies injury/torture and vulnerability , similar to Evil Dead. dolls, cctv are significant props.
-Costume - girls costume- eerie, relates to woman in black
Sound
In our film opening we will use a range of sounds which are associated and typical of horror movies. We will Introduce an eerie background soundtrack during the exposition of the film opening. Therefore creating tension with the audience. Additionally, we will include varying sound effects to exaggerate specific sounds which relate accordingly to the action on screen.-soundtrack - eerie, digetic sounds
Character
We will be using male actor around 18 years of age as the main character of our film opening. By the character being this age, strong emotional connections can be formed with our targeted audience as they will be around a similar age and therefore relate to him. Ideally we anticipated using a young teenage girl as our main character as she would maximise the vulnerability effect we are aiming for, however we were unable to locate an effective teenage girl who was willing to play the role of our main character.
-Titles and production company - erratic, gittery. Seven - Titles. Contributes to feel/atmosphere
Chanllenges conventions
doesn't start at equilibrium
Is my product successful?
- Demonstrate understanding of conventions of genre
Importance of Genre
Genre is very important in making films for several reasons associated with various stages and roles in creating films. Firstly, genre is vital for production companies as it allows them to create a film which is specific to a genre and also allows them to target a specific audience. Allowing them to receive the best possible feedback for their film. By knowing the genre of the film they want to create, they will be able to follow the specific conventions of their chosen genre to make a successful film. They will be able to identify and establish suitable costumes, make-up, sound, setting etc. Links with genre specific actors, producers, directors, writers, costume/make-up artists etc. will be formed and therefore allow the production companies to know all what they need to include in there opening to create the most successful film. By doing so, more people will be attracted to their film as they will know roughly on what the film will consists of and therefore will know whether the film is suitable for them. As more people will know whether they will like the film, the company will receive more financial income and make the maximal profits. From the point of view of the audience genre is also specifically important as it allows them to identify whether the film is suitable for their preferences in what they aspire the film to be like. It also provides them with anticipation and confidence in what the film will be like and therefore willing to pay money to go and attend the screening.
- Analyse research with screenshots - refer to real media products
- What impact did the research have on my ideas and final film
Allowed me to identify conventions of our genre and what is included in successful films.
- How does my film conform to conventions of my genre? How? Pick examples and use screenshots.. use screenshots from my film and real films to show this.
Mise en scene
The location which we have chosen to shoot our film is a derelict building near an abandoned radio station. This is stereotypical of the significance of settings that is included in horror movies.The fact that the building is abandoned, atmospheres of isolation can be created, creating a sense of vulnerability which could be attached to the protagonists.
Make-up will also play a significant role in our opening in making our main character seem as vulnerable as possible. We will apply specific make-up to make it look as the character is dirty and seem to be injured by adding several cuts and bruises. This can add a realistic factor to our opening and can result in the opening looking more professional. The association with the injuries can conclude in the audience forming stronger connections as his vulnerability will increase the sympathy felt and therefore the audience will want him to survive.
We will involve many stereotypical props of the horror genre into our film opening. Firstly, we selected to use old china dolls to play a significant role in our opening. We will be placing them around the scene. This also familiarises ourselves with the trends and conventions of the latest blockbusters as films such as Annabelle, The Conjuring and The Woman in Black have dolls as a main feature in their films. Other props that we will introduce will be a wooden chair, a black bag, a tape recorder, a mirror and a rope. -Props - blood, rope, chair are stereotypical of the horror, implies injury/torture and vulnerability , similar to Evil Dead. dolls, cctv are significant props.
-Costume - girls costume- eerie, relates to woman in black
Sound
In our film opening we will use a range of sounds which are associated and typical of horror movies. We will Introduce an eerie background soundtrack during the exposition of the film opening. Therefore creating tension with the audience. Additionally, we will include varying sound effects to exaggerate specific sounds which relate accordingly to the action on screen.-soundtrack - eerie, digetic sounds
Character
We will be using male actor around 18 years of age as the main character of our film opening. By the character being this age, strong emotional connections can be formed with our targeted audience as they will be around a similar age and therefore relate to him. Ideally we anticipated using a young teenage girl as our main character as she would maximise the vulnerability effect we are aiming for, however we were unable to locate an effective teenage girl who was willing to play the role of our main character.
The main character of our film also brought much research and planning to our opening. Initially and ideally we hoped to include a teenage girl inn our opening to add to the horror effect top the film. Teenage girls are stereotypically used in most horror films and add the aspect of vulnerability and innocence to the film. However, we do not have access to a character like this so therefore we have resulted in choosing to use a 20 years old semi-professional actor. Despite the acting not being marked in our opening we strongly believe that by including an effective actor we will be able to engage the audience more effectively and make the opening seem more realistic thus, forming stronger emotional connections with the audience and result in them wanted to watch the remainder of the film.-Casting - stereotypical age- protagonist connects to audience more, young girl as antagonist uncomfortable for viewers, she adds to the mood of the film appearing randomly in places.She appears to be possessed as she makes the CCTV turn off
Enigma Code
Our film opening as a whole could be considered as an enigma code. Several aspects of our opening will contribute to the overall effect of gaining the attention of the audience. The audience will be provoked to question why the main character is where he is, who put him there and how he got there in the first place. These questions will be raised through the audience seeing the character strapped to a chair with no previous explanations. The fact the we will include brief flashbacks displaying the character taking pictures results in the audience question why the boy was there in the first place, questioning the reasoning behind the events and where they are all taking place. The recognition of dolls in the opening will force the viewers to query why the dolls are there and whether they have any convenience an influence to the plot. The use of enigma code in our opening will make the viewer want to continue watching the entirety of the film.
-Titles and production company - erratic, gittery. Seven - Titles. Contributes to feel/atmosphere
Chanllenges conventions
doesn't start at equilibrium
Through many debates on what we will include in our film opening to engage the audience, we have decided that we will not include the aspect of everyday life for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we only have a limited amount of time to intrigue the audience and by filling it up mostly with everyday life, the opening could be considered as boring and therefore result in weak connections madd wit the audience. Also through our opening we need to define the genre of our film and by including a lot of everyday life it could result in the genre of our film being vague and unclear.
Is my product successful?
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