How does your media product represent particular social groups
The social group our movie is aimed at is for teenagers as of the ages of 16-19 year olds, this is because our 'victim' is presented as a typical teenager, through his clothing the audience we determined that the audience will be able to relate to him a lot easier and also be affected when we see him as being 'watched' and then murdered.
Below is a clip from our thriller opening showing our main character/ victim and from The Mummy Returns showing a kid, both the characters are wearing smart clothing, therefore showing class issues between the victim and the attacker.
in the same way we used 'stereotypes' to emphasise the attacker's motives towards the audience without having to explain much, we used this 'stereotype' to play on the audience's fears and get them involved into the opening!
Below is a screenshot of our 'attacker' and a similar attacker from Kidulthood.
This is our rough cut of our media production. We edited the scenes and added a soundtrack in to the production, but we still need to add the title sequence in to it, this is currently being in the making.
Here the group edited the soundtrack. We used an instrumental from Youtube, but we made sure that it was Copyright free, so we're enable to add it on to our production. Abid and Fuzail originally found the soundtrack, but Nahid and Viet thought we should alter the soundtrack so it fits perfectly in to our film.
Below are images of the whole group editing the soundtrack in how we wanted it, adding numerous amounts of effects to make it look more professional.
At first, we decided to go to Abid's house to film but the location seemed quite very far, it would take averagely an hour on the bus, we then decided to go to Nahid's house but that was also far for the liking of the team members.
Therefore we decided not to film there. However after turning down the chance to film in Nahid and Abid's house we had no other location to film so Fuzail decided we should film in his house. It would only take 30 minutes to get there from college and it was a great place to film.
Below is a photograph of the outside of Fuzail's house.
During our editing, we considered many options on what to put as our opening to the film. Some suggested that we place professional openings which are used by world class movie makers..
Abid thought of Universal.
Nahid thought of Warner Bros.
Fuzail thought of Columbia.
Viet thought of 20th Century FOX
However, we decided not to use any of them big companies, as the audience will think that the film was made by a big Hollywood company and had a big film budget, but it obviously wasn't. So then we decided to use the CANDIStudios opening, this is also available to everyone that is doing Media.
As a group we sat down and discussed which type of sounds we should have in our film.
At first we played around with the idea of including music from other films, but this idea was soon shattered by our teacher, who said that we couldn't add copyrighted music into our film.
We then looked for music which wasn't copyrighted, but to no avail as hardly any of the songs mentioned if they were copyright protected, thus we couldn't take the risk.
Then we decided that we would add relevant sounds into the film as we go along. This meant that there wouldn't be a specific song throughout the film, but more instruments and actual sounds of things in our film, such as the sound of glass breaking and etc.
Below is the instrumental we're going to use in our film production. However we decided to alter the original music, so we can add our marks on to the soundtrack.
Below are two instrumentals that we found and thought we should use in our film production. They both fit in to our film as a whole.
We had to choose which clothes we want our characters to wear.
THE VICTIM - Nahid Miah
The use of these clothes gives the audience that the person is an 'average joe', and that nothing is unusual about him. Nahid described to the group what type of shirt he should wear, and as a group we thought that would be perfect for the victim to wear, as it is something a normal person would wear.
THE KILLER - Jakir Hossain
We then had to choose what the killer would wear. We wanted to create a mood of mystery surrounding the killer, thus we wanted to include minimum amount of shots on him, also we wanted these shots to be very unclear so we used a cap and black jacket to hide is appearance as much as possible.
We decided Viet's jacket was perfect for the killer to wear, as it is fully black with no other colouring involved. We also decided that Fuzail's hat was also perfect for the killer to wear, as it is also fully black with flaps. Both these costumes are important as it's essential for the killer to wear blacked out clothing.
As a group we thought this is certainly our best scene we have produced in our film.
The two images below are when Nahid leans on the door and the suddenly Jakir comes across, as we're seeing him from glass door we can't really Jakir but we can see his figure, this comes out as a mystery as it traps the audience in sense of suspense and eagerness to know who it is.
Nahid (victim) leaning on the glass door and Jakir (killer) comes behind him.
Here you can see Jakir (killer)
The four images below are when Nahid sees Jakir, and then suddenly he drops his glass, after dropping the glass it shatters in to pieces and the suddenly Nahids on the floor with blood coming out his mouth/head. It's a mystery what happened to the victim.
Nahid sees Jakir for the first time.
Glass drops from the victims hand.
Glass shatters.
Victims on the floor with blood coming out his mouth/head.
