Q2) How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
When casting our killer we chose Liam from
our group to be our killer. Although Liam may not look like a stereotypical
killer due to his age but we had a limited budget and limited time and we
deemed it suitable just to have Liam as our killer. This is because Liam shares
similar characteristics to a stereotypically killer in a thriller movie. We can
see this as Liam has a large physique for his age which is similar to killers
in real films. Although Liam didn’t quite fit the typical conventions of a
killer we decided to go ahead with using Liam as we only had a limited number
of actors and we have Liam’s identity hidden through careful framing and focus
for a lot of the film so the physique of Liam is all we needed and he fit that
stereotype of a killer’s physique.
From this screenshot we have got
above we see Liam as our killer and it shows his rather large physique
which is stereotypical of a killer and we know he is a killer due to him
holding the axe and the determined look on his face. The shot of Liam on the
upper left is the only shot where the villains’ identity is shown to the audience and
this occurs right towards the end of the film. This shows our use of camera
shots as we lowered the tripod creating the low angled shot to show Liam’s
power and dominance. The camera shot shows the audience looking up to Liam
which suggests he’s more superior to us as the audience. We didn’t give away the identity of the
killer which keeps our audience guessing as they don't know what the killer’s
aim is and doing. We also created suspense as they will want to see who he is
and tension will be building to his identity being shown. The costume selection
we did a lot of research for. We looked into a villains costume in thriller
films and we felt it was suitable to use a suit for our thriller due to the
sophisticated nature and the normality our thriller brings. The suit helps our
narrative of bringing a sense of normality to the killer; this will help the
psychological effect we have tried to create. We have link Liam as our killer
to an actor like Jason Statham due to the similarities they shared. We went for a similar look and attitude and
the sophistication of Jason Statham created a link with Liam in our thriller as
they share connotations such as their violent ways and brutality when it comes
to violent scenes but also the sophistication in the way they are portrayed,
the costume is a main feature of this.
When deciding our victim we chose
Zak out of our group. This created a similar problem with Liam being the killer
as I am a male and the stereotypical victim is commonly female. The problem
that choosing the two actors created was that we didn’t get the subverted
conventions of a victim and a killer. Although we had limited actors we chose
me to play the victim due to my smaller physique compared to Liam and I can be
seen as a weaker character than compared to Liam. We just had to work with me
as the victim as best as we could and tried to make the thriller look as
professional as we could.
The costume used for the victim was to be a
casual outfit which is to show the link with the killer of the normality that
is shown in our opening. The casual look appeals to our psychographics of
mainstreamers by wearing an everyday look. This will give the audience
something to link with and will also unnerve the audience as they will feel
this type of violence can happen to anyone. Also we did our research into a
typical victim’s costume and realised the colour white was used almost all the
time. The colour white has connotations with innocence and purity and this
shows the character’s innocence. Also the tears in the white shirt show that
the character’s purity had been torn apart and had it taken away from him. Also
the use of a thin white shirt shows the character’s little protection and the
use of the red trainers helped as the colour red has connotations with blood
and danger and this will unnerve our audience. There aren’t many male victims
in thriller films and that is why it is hard to compare our victim to a real
victim.
The camera shots we used in our
thriller were very effective and I felt the shots we used for our characters
were very effective for the professionalism of our thriller. For the victim we
used a lot of close up shots and we felt this was an effective and appropriate
shot to use to show the brutality of the violence that had been inflicted upon
the victim. Also the close up of the victim also showed the facial expression
and this helped put across the fear the victim had to the audience and this
would have created tension and sympathy amongst the audience. Another shot used
was the 1st persons perspective shot that was used in the victim’s
eyes to see the killer with his weapon. This would put the audience in the
shoes of the victim and tension would be created as the audience would be
anticipating some violence. The camera shots we used for the killer was the
same camera shot used throughout which was the extreme close up and this was
used to not give much away to the audience and keep the killer’s identity
hidden.
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