How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The one female character that appears in the opening is shown to be vulnerable when she is taken by the antagonist without even showing a sign of what is going on. This could also perceive her as quite slow-minded, however she is only 10 years old so she would not be expected to fight back very much anyway. She is wearing a large, warm coat and primary school clothes, which is a typical thing for a young girl like her to wear on a cold weekday morning.
Another social group represented in our opening is amateur skateboarders. It is evident that they are amateurs because of the small, portable ramps and grind bar that they are using, instead of being in a large skate park. The older one can be seen as being arrogant and stupid for notwearing a protective helmet or elbow pads, and is punished by being taken by the light, whereas the younger one can be seen as rule-abiding by wearing the protective gear, and as a result is allowed to stay and skate on.
The other social group represented in our opening is the three male older teens. They are wearing thin casual shirts, jeans, and two of them are wearing coats that are seen by most of the teenage community as usual wear. The one who walks on his own could either be seen as brave or foolhardy at first, however when the antagonist appears in front of him he is seen as fearful when he runs away instead of staying and fighting. On the other hand, the victim could be seen as brave because someone of his stature usually would not be depicted as running for that long or that fast away from the danger.
All of the characters in our film are of white ethnicity, and all English too. This shows that our sequence wasn't filmed near a big, urban setting such as London, which means that there was less of an ethnic diversity of people to use as actors.
The genders of the characters are very traditional for thriller/horror films due to there being a male antagonist, a female victim, and the male characters are the expected age for these kind of films. This means that there is a dominant ideological discourse in terms of the representations of gender.
Evaluation part 3:
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Thriller films are distributed to both mainstream and specialised cinemas, however because our film is also in the Sci-Fi genre, it would probably not be suitable for specialised cinemas because specialised cinemas have an audience that is usually aged from 30-60 years old, whereas our film is aimed at 15-34 year olds. This means our film will have to be distributed to mainstream cinemas or put straight to DVD and TV. A sci-fi film that had a similar predicament was ‘Monsters’ (2010), a low-budget film where all the CGI was done in the director’s front room. The film was released into mainstream cinemas despite having a budget of under £15,000 because specialised cinemas didn’t have the right audience.
Audience research: http://twgsbmedia11asgroup1.blogspot.com/2011/03/methodology-and-results-evaluation.html
A TV channel that shows a lot of films like ours is Syfy channel. The films they show never appeared in mainstream or specialised cinemas, so this channel shows some of those films that only went to DVD. The film ‘Fireball’ (Tabori, 2009) was actually shown on this channel before it went to DVD, so letting this channel show our film could help to advertise DVD sales if it were to go that distribution path.
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