AS Evaluation Questions

Cerise Clarke, Paula Duru,Mickella Swaby

1.In what way does your media product use develop or

challenge forms and conventions of real media

products?

Inspirational Films

Hard Candy psychological thriller

Funny Games psychological thriller

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Slasher film

Scream Horror/Thriller

Conventions Complex Narrative Structure ✔

Crime at the centre of the narrative

Uses of Technology

Deceptive Mind Games

Stalking

Tension

Violence

Hidden Identity

Conventions Complex Narrative Structure

Crime at the centre of the narrative

Uses of Technology

Deceptive Mind Games

Stalking

Tension

Violence

Hidden Identity

Hard Candy We Were heavily inspired by the interactive dialogue that occurred in hard candy and we decided to incorporate that element into our sequence.

Uses of Technology ✔

We Developed this convention as we used a mobile phone as the use of technology instead of an chat room on the internet. We Felt that the phone was more of an personal approach to the character that was receiving the messages and pictures.

Scream We Were heavily inspired by the Hidden Identity that occurred in Scream and we decided to incorporate that element into our sequence.

Hidden Identity ✔

We Challenged this convention as we didn't use a mask which would entirely block the killer/kidnapper’s identity. However we did have the villain in dark clothes with a hood up with is a modern way that identity is hidden.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Crime at the centre of the narrative ✔

We Developed the convention of crime being at the centre of the narrative by showing a newspaper article that was in the process of being made by our main character we did not show the article being made we show the main crime. We also decided to challenge the way the crime was presented as we showed this on a computer screen. Whereas Chainsaw Massacre showed written.

Forms Set/Setting

Credits

Low Key Lighting

Tense Music

Changes In Camera Angles And Shots

Pace Changes

2. How does your media product (opening sequence) represent particular social

groups?

Different Social Groups

Who is being represented? A young successful woman who is doing quite well with her life

and career as a Journalist. She sometimes comes across as a bit of a nerd.

WHY?An intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession.

We felt that a woman suited the role more than a male. (Even though males are represented as nerds usually)

We wanted to get a reaction from the audience.

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What type of social groups are you representing?

The social group we are representing is a Nerd/Smart girl.

Why?

We wanted to show through our opening sequence that woman shouldn’t always be represented as vulnerable, inferior and inarticulate.

We challenged conventions of thriller movies by instead of using a uneducated blond woman.

We used a successful educated young lady.

Supposed to films like “Scream” when she's on the phone while talking to her stalker in a casual manner.

We used a form of technology to show that a vengeful killer on the loose is after her. Via Text and images.

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How did you represent the character or social group

(in a particular way) mise-en-scene 3

Mise-en-scene Representation

Setting • In her house alone. • Shows she is a single female possible always busy with work.• Her house is shown to be very neat and tidy. • Organised person

Lighting • Lighting is very calm• Everything looks like it’s going okay• Gets quite dark and shadowy in certain bits of the sequence (when she

gets attacked)

Colour • Colour • Orangish/Yellow – warm calm colours at the start of the sequence • Black

Body Language Posture is very lady like • Walking to her house in heels • Playing with her hair • Wears glasses all the time

Gesture • Very feminine like• Drops her phone (harshly)

Facial Expression • Puzzled / Concentrated • Confused • Frightened • Worried

Behaviour • Hostile (towards opening the door)

Speech • Well spoken English• Respectable (no slangs)

Positive or Negative Representation

The representation is positive and negative this is shown through her behaviour, how she is portrayed through her profession how she looks etc.

1. She’s successful (dressed in smart attire)

2. She is not blonde stereotypical lead female in Horror/Thriller movies

3. She is articulate

4. She lives alone (no sign of family)

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Is it a stereotypical convention? Why?5

No it is not a stereotypical convention we avoided the ditsy like character…

We avoided bright colours

• She never escapes death.

• She’s usually a very easy target

• Her death is usually graphic

Our Character

How does the representation relate to the Target Audience?

7

Representations of a Nerd

1. Smart Attire/Fully equipped

2. Lonely

3. Boring (in a sense)

4. Shy

5. Quiet

6. Isolated

7. Obsessive interests with work

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Is it a fair and accurate Representation?

9

Why we represented this social group.

We didn’t want to be too stereotypical.

Challenged that we could change up the character.

Wanted to show that NOT only ditsy characters are targets of brutal attacks or deaths at home.

3. What kind of media institution (film distributing company) might distribute

your media product (opening sequence) and why?

Wouldn’t be released in cinema due to us being on a low budget Would be released on DVD due to its affordable and our some of our targeted audience enjoy watching movies on DVD

5 film distribution companies we explored

Walt Disney Pictures