How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Camera man/Director: George Holmes, Jake Wilson
Age
All our actors/actresses are teenagers aged from 16 - 17. However we wanted the audience to feel like the Dr and his girlfriend were older in their late 20's, this was to appeal to a larger audience yet still appeal to the older audience.
Location
All of our characters are from north of England which isn't popular and very weird for Americans as most British films are set down south of England Therefore our audience may not be in america. However The slasher genre is a very unique genre as people don't seem to care as much about what country/county it is set in they just like the gore and the thrill they seem to get from watching it! So that's why were not overly bothered about where the film was set as long as the locations were good, we felt it could appeal to any audience. Never- the-less if a big budget was given to us, america or southern England would probably be where we chose as more people recognize these actors and scenic locations.
Characters
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| Michael Myers |
Peter is a mental asylum patient who has escaped from the Asylum in which the doctor works. He then comes back to kill his doctor and his wife in his own home. Peter wears a lab coat stolen from the asylum and wears this throughout our opening for the effect and it looks good. influenced by the slasher film Halloween and the patient and the main killer in the film Michael Myers who has also escaped from a mental asylum.
Dr Loomis
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| Dr Loomis |
Heather is the Scream queen in our film. Like your stereotypical scream queen she wore very little clothes, also revealing clothes, shes blonde and most importantly in our film opening she is sexually active as there is a sex scene in our opening to show this. We had a scene in the opening in which the scream queen gets killed, this was very much inspired by psycho as the same blonde scream gets killed in the bathroom. Our character heather was very much inspired by the psycho scream queen as she is blonde and sexually active. The bathroom being even more so.
Characters in our Opening
Curtis - 'Peter'
Reasons for:
- Young
- Good actor for an important role
This character kills the scream queen and the main character, we used narrative enigma to keep his identity hidden until he kills his first victim. He is an escaped patient form a mental asylum seeking revenge on his 'corrupt' doctor.
Curtis represented Michael Myers from Halloween not because of appearance but because of his weapon. However, my costume didn't follow the convention of Michael Myers as i wore a white lab coat.This is the killer running from the Asylum. The killers costume, is inspired by the patients escape to anchor that the character is a patient. He is wearing the Dr's lab coat and was the reason he was able to escape by disguise. He wears this lab coat throughout the opening.
Jake - Dr. Cruger
Reasons for:
- Looks like a doctor
- Reasonable actor for important role
- looks smart
This is the main character and is killed last by the killer. He is in a relationship with our scream queen his job role is that he works at the hospital where the killer escaped from.
Jake was the victim in our film opening, which is typical of representations. Also he was playing the role of the Dr because he looked the most appropriate out of him and Curt. He dresses reasonably smart like a Dr and has a nice house, which signifies a Dr's high wage pay. On the right is a typical character who dies after the girl.
Heather- Dr's Wife (scream queen)
- Blonde
- Takes drama for an AS level
This character is the doctors girlfriend, she plays the scream queen so she is killed first.
Heather represented Marion Crane from Psycho because she was the scream queen for our film.Here we have the bottom half of what our scream queen was wearing, we asked her to wear shorts as this shows a lot of skin especially with the top she was wearing as well. This was used as it is very stereotypical of the scream queen archetype to be blonde and wear revealing clothes.
Heather Represented the stereotypical scream queen, which is just like the archetype Janet Leigh off of the slasher psycho.
Media representations are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective.
Factors which influenced our representations:
- Our primary target audience
As 15 - 24 is our target audience, this influenced our representations, we used an all teen cast and used slasher conventions such as the scream queen.
- Our secondary target audience
We have many intertextual links in our film which link to much older films that our primary target audience will be unaware of.
- Our BBFC rating
This influenced our representations because we obviously weren't going to include any representations which would exceed our rating, if so our rating would have to be raised.
- Typical slasher films
Some of our representations come from slasher films as we used similar conventions to the ones we had seen in previous slasher films.
Below is a video of us talking about the Key Points of Narrative Representations.
Below is a video of us talking about the Key Points of Narrative Representations.
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