EVALUATION - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation

The representation and stereo type of the killer from my opening are:

Above is a still picture of our killer, he is walking in a park with his hands in his pocket and his head down. The image below is showing the character Sam from AdULTHOOD, as you can see he is also walking with his heads down and his hands in his pocket, these little actions suggest to us that they are 

Sly and Quiet 

They are both walking in a place where there are grass, Sam is walking in a graveyard whilst our killer is walking in a park. Although I listed 'DARK CLOTHING' as a stereo type for killer, Sam wears a grey 'hoodie'  but hides his face with a hood just like how our killer looks down to hide his face.

All this represents one particular social group.

The Modern Teenage Trouble Makers known as "Yobs"

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?


My media product imitates the common use of titles appearing in a specific order, below are the order that the titles appear in my media product;


Directed by Sayf Ahmed
Camera by Zak Chennane
Music and Starring Ryan Cameron
Edited and  Starring Viet Pham

 

We as a group tried to imitate the simple plain white text that appears in Days of Heavens 

(similar to what you can see above left). Above right is a screen grab showing one of the titles in our opening in the same kind of style.

Below are some of the shots we tried to imitate from movies as a form of intertextuality. 

From Romeo and Juliet i and my group tried to imitate the close up of Jesus, adding emphasis and tension.

From Incredible Hulk (left image) we tried to imitate the close up of the culprits eyes.

I was pretty sure that i wanted an over shoulder shot in my Thriller opening like the one from the step father on the left.

I thought it would be best to imitate the establishing shot from Step father but instead of an house i included a establishing shot of an church entrance in my opening.

We as a group thought it would be best to include an ident as most films seem to start off with an ident appearing above right is a screen grab of the ident in Reap As You Sow, and on the right is the Paramount  ident in Marathon Man.

We as a group were pretty keen on imitating the shot on the left from Kidulthood in our opening as you can see on the right.

Evaluation Question 1 - how my media product use, develops or challenges forms and conventions of real media.

EVALUATION - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

FORMS & CONVENTIONS of Thriller title sequence
Reap As You Sow and Mission Impossible

Although both are different from each other the use of the quick flashes between shots in the opening of Mission Impossible reminds me of my opening with the quick zoom up of Tom Cruise's face which is comparable with the slow zoom of Ryan Cameron's face.

Mission Impossible has very quick shots whilst in my opening the shots are slow.

Zoom into face was also from Incredible Hulk

The strangling scene is comparable with Adulthood's fighting scene in the graveyard, where the victim is on a bench and the killer is on top.

What have I learnt/gained from AS media

I personally feel that i have gained/learnt a lot from AS media. i started media knowing nothing at all about it, apart from the fact that it was a fun subject to study. As time went on and media became more familiar i found it to be engaging and interesting. i was practically learning new things every lesson and just learning my way around skills on camera, editing and sound.

At first i learnt about television soap drama and what the British film industry in which we studied essays and case studys.

As mid october approached we as a class moved on to learning about what a good thriller is what it includes and what we could imitate (intertextuality) from examples of good thrillers, such as Memento, Psycho, The Step Father and many more.

We as a class were then taught many skills to do with the college JVC camera, such as how to record camera footage, place the tripod and how to chose the appropriate focus for our filming. Below is a photo of the college camera

Once we learnt how to record footage using the college JVC camera we were  taught how to edit the clips  recorded in Final Cut Pro were could combine all the shots taken for thriller opening and add sound and titles. Below is a screen grab of Final Cut Pro

Mentioning sound i remembered that we were also taught how to create sound on Soundtrack Pro, which  I found one of the hardest tasks to do regarding media. But lukily other members in my group were fluent in using Sound Track Pro and were able to produce a suitable soundtrack for our  bag swap and thriller opening. Below is a screen grab of the bag swap sound.

Lastly but not least we were taught how to create titles using Live Type, which found quite amazing as you could create professional titles such as the titles you see in many movies whether its thriller or comedy. Below is a screen grab of my name in Live Type.