Evaluation Question 2

Can you tell me what social groups you think our opening sequence represents and how you think they are shown?

I believe that our opening sequence represents many social groups as it shows the innocence of young adults and also a side of older teens that maybe is a bit out of the ordinary. We did this to try and make the viewer think about this through the use of their costumes. We decided to show this social group through this way as we thought it would be most effective when looking at these age groups. We also used location to show this social group in a very different comfort zones. We used Mise en scene was used well to create atmosphere and to show the social groups a lot more prominent. Although we didn’t have any lot of dialogue in our opening sequence, if we did it would be typical to the social class and area that the location was shown.

Why did you choose to represent the social group that you did?

We chose this social group to represent as it is a time of your life where you can gain many emotions, some more extreme than others, and we tried to show how far some people’s emotions can take them at this early age in life and how wrong a path people can take due to their social groups. We saw how no one else really picked up on this issue and we wanted it to gain some attention, however extreme we had to make it. I think that we didn’t take it too far we just pushed the boundary of what we knew we could do. We showed how anyone of any social class and background can be capable of things you wouldn’t have thought and I think that the element of surprise due to the characters young ages really made this more thriller-like. Also, these are our target audience so they can relate.

How do you feel you represented this social group in your opening sequence?

I feel that we have represented this social group well in our opening sequence as we tried to capture the emotions of this social group and the things they would go through, however extreme this might be. By having our main and only characters as the same social group, this shows how we have thought that this would reinforce the idea of the two different ends of the social group.

 

How do the following help construct a specific representation of your characters and their social group?

The lighting in our opening sequence makes our main character look lonely. We used a sepia effect for some of it this makes the scene look like it’s in the past where its meant to be set. The lighting is always dark which means there is a sense of loneliness with our character which leave mysterious questions in the audiences head about him.

We used a variety of camera shots and movements to portray the characters in different ways.  We used a lot of over the shoulder shots to get the actors point of view and what he can see.

In some of the parts of the film we changed the colour of the production to sepia which gave it the effect of being old. We also used black and white for a flash back so that the audience can recognise that it is a flashback.

We used a sound effect of a heartbeat to make the whole scene seem like the person is nervous and something is about to happen. We also use the music to give depth into the scene.