evaluation question 1

evaluation question 2

Representation of social groups - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Dominant representation - In society there is generally a dominant representation of an individual or group of people. This representation is generally formed by the media and how they percieve an indvidual or group. For example young males around 14 - 18 dominant represenatation tends to say that young males are violent , immature, not well manared, trouble makers , loud, smokes and drinks alcohol.

Teenage boys - The media is so widespread that when Teenage boys are percieved in a negatve light, a bad stereotype can form. For example this picture of boys fighting below would be presented in the media, meaning people begin to affiliate fighting with teenage boys.

Representation of Gender in my thriller opening - In my thriller openinng the main characters ar generally male. The distruptive male student meets the stereotype of a loud, trouble maker. I chose to make the main character a male and distruptive as the audeince feel like they can relate to this character as many people percieve young males as acting in the way my character did. Males are also stereotyped as being competitive and alpha males. This is seen in my thriller opening as we see the teacher lose his temper and asset his dominance after the 'misbehaved student throws the bottle at him. This suggests both Males want to seem dominant and act as the alpha male in the class enviroment.

 

representation of Age - The teenage character in my production meets the stereotype that male teenagers tend to misbehave. We see him throw the bottle at the teacher in an aggressive manner and slam doors when walking in the corridor. This suggests his young immature mindset and percieves the young character as violent, which is the stereotypical view. On the other hand, the Teacher who is an older male behaves against the stereotype. Older men are generally percieved as mature, focused, respected and dominant. However in the classroom he was not respected nor dominant by the teenage student. This made the older male teacher in my thriller look weak and go against the stereotype. In addition he then attacks the student, suggesting that instead older males are just as violent as the teenage males aged 14-18. This provides insight into another way older males can be viewed in society, hence why I chose to go against the social norm with this character.

feedback analysis

evidence of filming

In these Images we see evidence of filming. In the first Image I am standing in a spot, filming in a place with minimal lighting. This shot was intended to have less lighting, therefore choosing to film there was effective. In the second image i am utilising the zoom feature on the camera. This shot provides natural lighting when filming. I had to film this shot several times to make sure the shot came out how I intended. 

filming technique

The student is then carried into a dark room, which builds tension as the audience as the know that the student is not in a good situation but they wonder what is going the happen to them with in the room. We also position the student in a way that would allow small amounts of light onto his face, we did this so that the audience could see the emotions and facial features of the student.

 In the scenes that show that the school is empty we chose angle that would show a large view as it would better school how empty the school was. We choose to shot the scenes out of focus to try and show the something isn't quite right or matters aren't as clear as would seem.

 

We then cut to a shot of a keep out sign in full focus to give a clear seen of danger in the school.

social media

This is an image of the post my partner and I made for people to promote, tweet and hashtag our opening. This would help market our production and if we were trying to make a profit off of this, it could be the difference between us meeting our targets and missing them.

The way we promote our production was be using the social media platform snap chat to take pictures of parts of our opening and then caption it telling them to either be ready to for when it releases as well as the date of release and also to hashtag it and tell their friends.

lighting technique

In our opening we decided it would be best to use the natural lighting available to us as it would give our footage a more natural and real feel and as we had decided from the beginning we wanted our opening to have lots of realism, in order to allow for the audience to be able to connect more with the scenes.

Despite this we were able to create suspense in scenes by using the natural light in a variety of ways 

For example in the scene in which the teacher and student have their confrontation we filmed facing the light, this not only gave us an over the shoulder angle but it also blacked out the student and the killer, this meant that it could how ever slightly hide the identity of the killer, which builds suspense and makes the audience wonder who it could be. It also hide the features of the student allowing the audience to be able step in page of the student and garner empathy.

The student is then carried into a dark room, which builds tension as the audience as the know that the student is not in a good situation but they wonder what is going the happen to them with in the room. We also position the student in a way that would allow small amounts of light onto his face, we did this so that the audience could see the emotions and facial features of the student.