Evaluation - Question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Age:
Our film challenges many stereotypes of particular social groups through the use of cinematography, sound, mise en scene and editing. In the first two minutes of the film it mainly focuses on two young teenagers and throughout the full film will have adults; both male and female. Typical stereotypes of young teenagers are portrayed as vulnerable and in our film we fit this convention by using high angled shots facing down at 'Chris' to create a sense of danger which worked well along with diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. We made use of fast paced editing in the chasing scenes to attract the attention of the audience to ensure they are focused which will output a thrill to the audience and also present Chris more vulnerable and in danger.







Gender:
In the first two minutes of our film, we mainly focus on the two young teenagers and the voice of another person. Despite, seemingly looking androcentric within the first two minutes, we had planned to add many more female characters throughout the rest of the film. The two main characters in the first two minutes of the film were portrayed as vulnerable people in danger which subverts typical conventions of men as they are shown more masculine and strong, brave, etc.











Mise-en-scene:
Mise-en-scene was portrayed in the first two minutes of our film through clothing and props. We used stereotypical clothing on Chris of a modern teenager such as; joggers and trainers.We had produced home-made blood to use for our filming on the Desperate Man as he was portrayed as to be injured and vulnerable.







Editing:
The use of editing on our film allowed us to filter the colors which helped output a better look to the woods and street scene as these were clear and helped add to the sense of realism. The brighter color tones on the leaves and grass allowed the scene to look more dream kind and that it happened a while later than the home scene.

 


Camera:
The types of shot were particularly chosen in order to portray vulnerability to Chris so we decided to use high angle shots and make the audience empathize with Chris. We had also made use of two dolly shots that were put into the first two minutes of our film in order to create a sense of realism and make the audience feel like they were in Chris's perspective which helped to create a sense of fear and questioning of what was going to happen.


Sound:
In order to create a sense of suspense and portray the characters as vulnerable in our film we used as little dialogue as we could in order to make our audience question what was happening. We relied on ambient sounds like the wind and the tweeting of birds to create a sense of isolation, especially in the woods scene. We had to edit the sound of the phone call, in order to make it sound like it was a legitimate phone call that would happen if somebody was calling 999.