How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Within a particular media product I do not think we have represented any social groups in particular because it does not really have any acting within it. We are only seeing close-ups of objects and photographs. We may have challenged one stereotype when creating our media product,such as; the psychotic killer always seems to be a male and the male is always stalking a female. We did not intentionally challenge this particular stereotype but found that the person playing the killer is a male and the personplaying thevictim is a female, a female that looks very innocent. Another stereotype that we did not intentionally challenge was the psychotic killer being within a dark room with tools and photographs of the victim, this particular stereotype has been shown by the location that we have chosen to film our media product.

Here are some victims from films:

Here are some psychotic killers from other movies:

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

Many things have influenced the decisions that have been made for our film, some of which are the film Se7en and also watching other thriller opening sequences so we could get ideas from them. My media product is verysimilar to the film Se7en as that is where most of the ideas for my media product came from although they are not exactly the same. Although my media product has been influenced by the thriller Se7en there has been developments and changes to ours, such as; we decided to used a particular victim and we are showing this victim through images in our opening sequence whereas in the filmSe7enthere is no particular victim shown to the audience. My media product is a very simple and easy way to show an opening sequence and is used within a lot of films and so that is why we thoughtthat it would be good to use this as it is original. I think that the media product is effective because once again it is original and used a lot and so works best within a film.

The Opening Sequence from Se7en

Props, Costumes & Location

Props

We decided to take an image of a tripod because we used this a lot when we were filming, this helped us to get all of the high angle shots that we needed when looking over the shoulder of the killer and looking down upon the objects.

We used these scissors within filming; these scissors were used when the killer was cutting up some of the images of the victim within the film.

These pins were used in the film when the killer was finding out where the victim lived, he then put a pin to know for future reference.

We used these within the film and decided to take a picture of them. These were used for the killer to make sure that all of the documents he had on the victim were all together.

This glue was used within the film so that the killer could stick down some of the images of the victim.

This cello tape was used to hold some of the images of the victim down.

This is an image that we took of a camera and decided to take this because without this we would not have been able to create our film at all.

Costumes

This is an image of what the victim will be wearing within the images that have been taken of her. We can see that from the light colors that the victim is very innocent and this is what we wanted to portray when choosing our costumes.

Shehabur will be wearing black clothing and because we won't see the whole of him within the film we will only be seeing the dark sleeves that he is wearing and his hands.

Location

Our location had to be very dark and so we chose to shoot some of our stuff inPDH and Shehabur also shot some stuff at his house in a room that was very dark. Here are some images of where we shot some of our stuff.

Sound

Shehabur decided to find the music as we did not have long to film our opening sequence and while he was finding the music me and Sophie were trying to make the titles.

Within our film all we hear is our music, we do not hear anything else at all because we thought it would be better to have our music just overlap any other sound. A site that was used to get this music that we have for our opening sequence is called free sound. Here is a link:

http://www.freesound.org/

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=105044

Script

There is going to be no dialogue within the opening sequence but we thought that it was right that we made a script consisting of what noises the audience may hear within the opening sequence and also the music the audience will be hearing.

The music we will be using is an original piece of music and is being made by Alisha as we felt that if the piece of music was original then it wouldn’t be like other films.

The audience does not hear any dialogue or any other noises within the opening sequence and so there is not much more that I can talk about.

Pictures of the group in action

Titles

Titles

In this lesson we came up with the relevant titles that will appear on screen at the beginning of our opening sequence.

Name of Studio

Shemol Studio’s

Name of Production Company

Million Productions

Director Name

A Film by Donna Ellis

Starring

Donna Ellis

Featuring

Shehabur Rahman

Casting by

Sophie Hardy

Music composed by

Alisha Salas