Evaluation 2 How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups.

       











Our media product "The Abandoned" is about a young girl who enters a burnt down house which is later shown that the house is possessed. We used a school girl because it relates to our target audience. The costume we used was a school uniform the girl was wearing a short navy blue skirt with a white shirt and a blazer this gave it a full effect that we were protraying a 15 year old school girl. we made our character where a full uniform because we wanted to show she was young and many horrors we had seen had the similar uniforms. We compared our costumes to the beginning of the ring where the girl is killed in her uniform. the makeup we used was a girly type makeup which most teenager would wear this is also common in many films. we wanted to have a normal teenage girl but we made her more of an outcast to fit our story line.




We didn't make our media production a typical horror we used a quiet girl that doesn't really get in trouble to make it less stereotypical this also gives our film a twist. Thats why the social group she represents is an outcast this isn't really common in films but we used this because we wanted a quiet young girl that hasn't got many friends so when she walks in the house alone its normal because she's use to being by herself.


The picture shown above shows two school girls from the film the ring but the way there are dressed shows that they social groups is popular and have loads of friends compare to our character we had Aime in her school uniform but she wears glasses and her skirt isn't as short as theres but we did let Aime wear makeup but it shows her as an outcast. There body language is a lot different to Aime's as there are shown to be the type of girls who are around boys and more out there as aime is all alone and her uniform is neat she's also more of a jumpy character.

Evaluation 1 In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use,Develop And Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media Products?

The Abandoned 

The Blair Witch Project

The shots above are showing two creepy houses one is from The Blair Witch Project and the other one is from our opening sequence The Abandoned. Both of them were filmed in a creepy house this gives our film an extra effect because the house is the main feature and contains the films story line. The houses in both film are haunted which causes whoever enters it to become possessed.

We used props in our opening sequence and the props that we used was a bible and cross the reason we used this is because in many typical conventional horrors religion is used for help. The shot of the cross is from the film Amityville horror which is also about a house that gets a man possessed.

Aime is dressed in a school uniform this is to establish that she is a young girl and she attends school so this makes her seem very vulnerable. I compared her uniform to a horror Halloween H2o This is also another typical convention.

We didn't use much lighting we left it dark to make her stand out. This to scare the audience because it looks like she's walking into a pitch black room which causes an enigma. It doesn't show whats exactly happing in the room. The camera is on a shallow focus.

This is a list of screen shots from our opening sequence that helped me with my evaluation.

Update March 14

March 14 our group was in the middle of editing and we started to film extra footage that we might need to add. We also updated our blogs to make sure we have completed all our work and have added enough detail as we could. As a group we all have helped with the editing E.G making sure the right footage is added and put together properly.

Props

for our opening sequence we used many props to help create our paranormal horror. The props that we used were..

A Bible And A Cross

The reason we used this is because we wanted to make our opening sequence look effective and also we filmed it in a burnt down house and the bible and cross are in perfect condition showing that it was not in the house at first.






The other props we used was a School Uniform,Glasses,Bag and a Doll. The props helped make it more effective and create a lot of tension.

Risk Assesment

We decided to do film our opening sequence in a burnt down house to make it look real and give a supernatural horror effect but before we could start our filming we had to check the whole house out to see whether or not it was safe to film there and what hazards could of effected us during our film production. There were many hazards that were there but the hazards the were there could be avoided e.g. there was a lot of burnt wood on the floor it was a lot of mess but we still decided to film there because it helped bring out the supernatural horror effect. But before we actually started filming we checked to see if the house was still stable and that there was no chances of it dropping on us. We also filmed our horror clip really quick just to be safe and we wanted to be near a busy environment just incase anything did happen we could get help.

Location Recce

For our location research we decided that we wanted to film our opening sequence in a house. The reason we chose a house is because we wanted our clip to look like a real paranormal horror.In order to make it look effective and realistic we wanted an abounded house because that would help the effect of a possessed house that we were aiming for.We went around many different areas to find a perfect place to do our opening sequence.We wanted it be like a haunted house, this would also make the audience think why the house is haunted and what exactly had happened there.