Media Evaluation- Question 2

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

In our film, we created we only used Women Characters, these were the girl, the mother and the girl’s best-friend. We are going against the stereotype of the male being the main characters since during most films male characters are usually the leading characters however in our film the leading character is the girl who gets murdered. 

Here is a photo to show evidence of the girls
been the main character in our film.

Here is another photo to show evidence
of girls been the main character in
our film. 

A film which is similar to our film is Psycho By Alfred Hitchcock. In this film the girl also gets murdered just like in our film. In other films the main characters are usually male as they are the most violent so our film is again against the typical stereotype. 

This is a similar film to our's as the girl
on the photo is also the main character
just like on ours.

This is a film which is like the
typical stereotype in films.
The film is called Blow and the
main character is Johnny Depp.

We also we go against the typical stereotype as most children in films have a mother and father whereas our film the girl has never really met her mother as she was left on a street corner at 2 weeks old. 

Dark Skies is a typical stereotype of a film,
as it includes a mother, father and child. However our
film goes against this stereotype as the girl
had never even met her mother. 

Our film also goes with the typical stereotype as the girl who gets murdered has a best-friend which most teenagers do have. This also matches our target audience as most people who will watch the film will watch it with their friends.

This is a typical film to match the stereotype
of friends been friends. Many friends will
also watch this film together.

This is an example of how we have
 used low key lighting.

In our film we also used dark lighting when the murder takes place, this matches the stereotype of most thriller and horror films as when the murder takes place it is often in a dark and haunted house. 

This is a further example of how
we have used low key lighting to
make the scene look scary and match,
the stereotype of typical horror and
thriller films.

This is another example of how we used
 dark lighting in our short film to build up tension,
 and make the scene look dark and scary.

In the film we have added sounds that match the scene to add tension to the build up of the murder, this matches stereotypes of other films as when murders take part or on key scenes they use music which will add to the scene. In our film when the girl and her mother are arguing the mother is stood on a step which is higher than the girl this represents power and that the mother has got control which we know as at the end of the film the girl dies. We have used a low angle here to represent that the mother has control and power over the girl even though she hasn't been apart of the girls life. At the beginning of our film we also had a shot of the girl been laid on the floor showing that she has no power.

This photo shows that the mother is in control
and is taller then the girl she is also stood on
a step which represents that she has all the power.

Here you can see that the mother is stood,
on the step which again represents that she
is higher and represents power, towards
her character. 

The mother is dressed in bright clothing to show that she is a chav and therefore gives the audience the impression that she doesn't care about herself or her daugther. The two friends are dressed very feminine and it shows that they obviously care about their appearance.