Evaluation Question 2 (Zak Green)

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our antagonist, Janith negatively represents teenage males in our thriller film opening as he is represented by a violent murderer. We conformed to the stereotype of male teenagers being violent, aggressive and cruel as at the end of the opening we get the feeling that he is about to kill another woman. 

Janith is an 18 year old teenager that as the audience see from the opening seconds of the opening is on some kind of mission (as we can see in the short clip below). It looks like he is going into the garage whilst holding a hammer which gives the audience an idea that he is going to do someone violent.

Janith isn't your average teenager because in the garage you can see a list of girls names with some of them crossed out telling the audience that he has killed them, this isn't something you would expect a normal teenager to do.

Mise En Scene

Another reason why Janith you can tell that Janith isn't your typical teenager is due to the clothing he is wearing, the fact that he is wearing a black hoody with his hood up indicates he is trouble and perhaps liks to spend a lot of time in gangs and fights. 

In other films involving some kind of male murderer the protagonist usually wears a black hoody as they are difficult to spot in dark environments and they indicate danger in a way. This is an example of a character from the thriller film "the da vinci code" and we can see that he is also wearing some kind of black hoody and it makes it almost impossible to see the left half of his face.

The dark lighting in the garage may also tell us a bit more about the personality of Janith. The fact that the lighting is dark may indicate to the audience that Janith is dangerous because in the dark it is hard to see what is happening and in this particular event in the opening there is a murder and this tells the audience that he is a violent and dangerous person

Camera Shots

Close Up Shot

We included a close up shot at the start of the thriller opening to show the blood that is on the hammer that the antagonist is holding. This close up shot is very important because the audience get to see the blood that is on it and it tells them a lot more about the antagonist. It tells them that the antagonist is probably a murderer and he is keen to kill more innocent people.

Here we positioned the camera behind the antagonist intentionally in order to show the audience exactly where he was walking towards and where the rest of the opening is going to be set.

Low Angle Shot

Here is a low angle shot where the antagonist was about to kill the innocent women. The fact that the antagonist is much higher than the women suggests that he is more superior compared to the woman and is in control of the scene.

Effects

One effect we included in our opening was that we made the names on the wall have a slight bit of white light flashing on them which gave it a dramatic effect