Evaluation - Activity 2
Question: How does you media product represent particular social groups?
Elle Burton - The Little Girl
Elle is the little girl within the opening to our film. So she is portraying this little girl who is unknown the audience until the end of the opening. However we wanted her to mostly portray this innocent little girl and we did this by adding white clothing such as her jumper, scarf, some bits within her coat and her socks. Majority of her shouted out innocence to the audience this also helps to identify this as she is carrying a teddy bear and many young children would do this. We made sure when doing this during filming we would use her natural skin colour, instead of applying any foundation or make-up as we wanted to represent her as being this ghost, so we decided to use her naturally within the film to portray this to the audience. The little girl would come under the audience of Group E, this is because she is only a little girl who is a student and unemployed because of her age, and we wanted to relate this to the audience.
Tyler Long - The unknown male
Tyler plays the main character of the unknown male within the film (The Silhouette). We wanted him to all being in black as this adds the idea of him being unknown and bases him round the area of mystery and darkness. Within his character he is wearing a suit/tie which is showing him to the audience as powerful, business type of person, however the audience doesn't know his true identity until the end of the opening to the film. We would therefore base the Silhouette character around the Group A and Group C1. This is because of how he is seen as this well paid business man within the suit that he is wearing and how near the end we find his true identity he would come under as C1 because he could possibly be seen like a bank clerk or middle management even know as parent at end the little girl's daddy.
Comparisons:
When looking at the little girl who is in the film "The Conjuring" which our film is based around we can see that she also has short hair, showing this venerability and she is also holding a teddy bear like our character is. Therefore, this is demonstrating that because we wanted to base our opening around the film of the Conjuring we wanted to base our little girl character around her with the features such as the hair and props. However, we decided to use white clothing with our character to add in more innocence of a child, therefore or character was based around this type to link in with our social groups.
As we can see looking at this comparison we have the idea of a little girl with a business man who is her dad. This image is linked in with our opening as at the end of the opening the audience find out that the man following the girl throughout the flashbacks and the present day is in fact her dad as she shouts out at the end "DADDY NO!" this image shown in comparison to ours shows that our silhouette character is dressed within a business suit, however ours in more dressed darkly to give that mystery that is needed for our opening. So the reason why Tyler (Silhouette) would be the social group for Group A and C1 because of how he is business, well paid man to the audience at the start and at the end we see him as this employed parent who has a suit that could be connected with being a bank clerk and this comparison clearly shows how we have constructed our character with the example image next to it that we used for the ideas of his character's creation.
