'How does your media product represent particular social groups?'

A social group is any set of persons within society that differs from other sets due to demographic, economic or social characteristics such as age, ethnicity, sex, education level, race, religion, income level, lifestyle, beliefs, etc.
Our media production represents the social group of white youths being more sick and twisted in the head than young black youths. As the killer we use in our production is a young white male and is no ordinary killer as he uses a butcher’s knife to kill his victims. This idea also conforms the fact the most famous horror film killers are in fact white males.
Continuing on, Our production, although it does use females as victims, challenges the dominant ideology that most murderers are generally men and that most victims in slasher films are generally females, as the majority of the victims in our piece are men. A film which greatly challenges this dominant ideology is ‘I spit on your grave’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave_(film) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKCys3sd8Bw
In this film it is a female murderer and all of the victims are male.
We challenged the ideology that women are more vulnerable than men by making the majority of the victims in our film, males.

In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

For our main task, my group decided to do an opening title sequence for a film in the horror genre. The main reason for doing this was because all the members of the group have seen many horror films throughout our lives and felt it would be safe if we worked with this.
“Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain.” – Wikipedia
My group worked with this quote to create our title sequence, but we mainly used the theme of death and mental illness. Furthermore, we developed such existing openings like ‘The devils rejects’. http://timeldridge.blogspot.com/2010/02/devils-rejects.html This opening title sequencing is very similar to ours, it uses the missing pictures which is one of the main signifiers we used throughout our piece.
From doing research into the horror genre we discovered what the best age boundary to aim at for our target audience – 15-19(late teens). Purely for the fact that this is what we are and we know what does and doesn’t scare us. This was a benefit as it greatly helped us to plan and work on our opening title sequence and to conform a lot of common elements of modern horror films such as murder and kidnapping.

Powerpoint and Further Reasearch

Powerpoint to main task



















Props- The main prop we used throughout our piece was the knife(as the main signifier). At first we were going to be using a butchers knife but none of the members in our group actually had one. So we had to improvise with another big knife. Another prop we used was the missing posters, these are also a big signifier. We used 6 or 7 missing posters throughout the piece and we had permission from the people to use there pictures in them.

The only actor in our title sequence was curtis, but you dont see his face. This was mainly for the fact that he of all the members of our group, he was the best for the part and we didnt want to use other people as an actor. Also curt was the best/freakiest at cutting up the meat so we thought that would go well with the storyline. Curt just wore dark clothing throughout-Black coat (with hood up so that we couldnt see his face) black jeans and shoes. He wore this so that it seemed as if he didnt want to be seen by anybody, as if he was up to something.

Sound used- We used a variety of clips from sounddogs.com throughout or opening sequence. We used a clip of metal clanging when each letter of the word MISSING appears and screams throughout the title sequence. We used our own sounds such as the meat chopping throiughout the piece also.



Heres the scipt we were going to use

Richard Eno:
(Pictures of the missing children will be shown with names in the top right corner)
-Over the past two weeks, a number of children and young teenagers have been reported missing in the Totton and Ashurst area
- Police have obtained three suspects from a number of leads within the past week
-Reasons for disappearances are unknown

(With picture of suspects up instead of children)
-If you happen to see or come across any of these suspects, please contact the police immediately
-Avoid at all costs, if unavoidable then approach with caution.


Ticker/Roller text:
Additional News:
-Second earthquake to hit Haiti
-Andy Murray through to Wimbledon final
Weather:
-Heat-wave expected to hit Britain
-Killer wasps entering France, expected to invade Britain in mid July

The Devils Rejects

The opening title sequence to this film is very similar to certain parts of our title sequence, we will be using the slow zoom effect which is used here when the missing pictures and police evidence pictures are shown. The credits which appear in this piece also use the same effect as the one swe are using in our title sequence. The music used throughout the opening gives the effect that the film is going to be set in southern america due to the fact that the music is very country style. On top of the music is commentry from a news broadcast related to the pictures being shown on screen, this is one of the ideas we were going to be using in our piece but didnt qutie get around to doing it.

5th Feb

Today Me and Curtis put all the rushes we had so far together, we added in a few extra rushes also(For example-each letter of the word MISSING). We then started editting what we had, like putting in a slow zoom on one of the meat chopping shots and a black and white slow blurry effect on one of the missing poster shots, we will continue to be editting the rest of shots over the next week. We have to film only one mor eshort part which is the news broadcast which Reno is going to be acting in for us. We will then add that to our rushes and edit that. WE may overlap the sound from that over the duration of our clip and also may use the sound of the knife chopping over the duration of our clip to give an eery effect throughout the clip.

update

1st February- Today we finished capturing and updated blogs

29th January- we are capturing and doing prologue

28th we filmed at my house, we filmed cutting up meat

26th we filmed stuart walking around but we may not use that shot

23rd me and curt discussed and learn how to use a programme called bonx tv. We will use this for a news broadcast were reno will present

21st we filmed more missing poster shots

19th catched up with blogs

16th we made our missing posters

14th planned our ideas

12th we made a suspect board and filmed

Creep

Creep uses fast blurry images in which confuse the viewer as the images are very hard to work out what they actually are. The images are as if someone is running away from something, or trying to find a way out of the place they are in. Some images however are purposely viewable. For example You can clearly see the blood on the floor in certain parts, this is used to make it clear to the viewer that the film involves some sort of killing. It also shows a blurry image of a woman being tied down and a hand being held on her face with lots of blood around it. They use this to startle the viewer into thinking this film is going to be about killing.
This is imilar to what we will be using, fast moving disturbing moving images. So this opening was a big help to us as we will be using similar techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peggLQ1fLg8 <- This is the link to the video.