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Evaluation 2
- 1. EVALUATION 2 Why does your media product represent particular social groups?
- 2. HOW HAVE WE SHOWN THE MENTALLY ILL? Our main character ’Emily Ovittz’(played by myself, Hollie Merrick) is the orphaned child of her government official parents who were murdered by a mysterious black figure. In the opening we show that Emily is suffering from a sleep disorder which makes her wake up at particular hours in the night to look at worn down articles and pictures of her parents of when they died and the pictures show the memories. She is woken up by a nightmare she is having, which leads her to the church- a place where she seeks as a place of refuge and security as it is where the were killed. A church also shows a symbol of peace and can help her free her mind of all thoughts except this one. (this is repetitive because of her symptom of PTSD) This shows how she cant come to terms with the fact that her parents got taken from her so early without any explanation. Emily’s visiting of the church shows her obsession as it is repetitive and shes on her own so can only share her own thoughts.
- 3. WHERE DID WE GET OUR INSPIRATION FOR THE CHARACTER ‘EMILY OVITTZ’? We got our idea of the character Emily Ovittz from the character Logan Lerman who plays Charlie in ‘The perks of being a wallflower’, who also suffers from PTSD. This character ’Charlie’ was molested by his troubled Aunt Helen, every week. After her sudden death in a car crash she was in when she was young, he blames himself for her untimely death, which is where his PTSD originates. The time f this death causes hi to overdoes of illegal substances with cause him to suffer from blackouts and have frequent nightmares etc- all of which are symptoms of PTSD. PTSD was the disorder that we chose as it can have a backstory and we can link it to her obsession of the parents death and makes her think of how it all happened.
- 4. WHAT WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR ’EMILY’S’ MISE EN SCENE? The outfit that we chose for Emily was going to be a white shirt and her bed socks. She sleeps in this bed shirt as it was her dads and she wears it as a symbol of her relationship with her down and emphasises how she misses him. It also shows the audience how she woke up in the middle of the night. The color of her pyjamas (white) associates her character with innocence and purity, this reflects her personality as a whole as she has been abandoned from a young age and doesn’t deserve the life she’s had by loosing them. Emily wear thick bed socks on her feet which also highlights her childlike attributes whilst also letting the audience known that she’s wearing them as she has just awoken from her sleep. Also following the theme of nighttime scene we made sure that Emily (played by Hollie) had no makeup on and natural hair to show her age and how he wouldn’t be wearing any kind of makeup in her sleep. However, we filmed Emily in high key lighting which contrast on the dark night to show a representation of her innocence and how she is on her own. This could also mean that she was in a spotlight for the black figure to predatorise. The prop that we used for Emily was a picture of her and her mother which shows her
- 5. HOW HAVE YOU SHOWN STALKERS? The stalker is a black figure that is after the final ‘Ovitts’ victim of the family – Emily. This shows how the stalker went through the generations of the family to get the government official documents which are held by Emily. Our villain is shown as a black figure that is stalking Emily to try and kill her. We dressed her all in black to represent the darkness of the characters personality, we also did this by putting the figure in the shadows and in low key lighting. We have put the character in this darker lighting in attempt to heighten the tense atmosphere and to make the audience worry about Emily’s safety as he is practically walking in her shadows and how the figure is in a dangerously close
- 6. WHERE DID WE GET OUR INSPIRATION FOR THE STALKER CHARACTER? We got our inspiration for this mysterious black figure from the character of Bill in ‘Kill Bill’. We got this idea because Kill Bill is a film that is produced in black and white. It begins with footsteps as he walks over to ‘The Bride’, on the floor. We imitate this by never showing the stalkers identity to keep her identity a mystery, this creates more suspense for the scene and shows that it will be revealed eventually.
- 7. WHAT WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR ‘THE STALKERS’ MISE EN SCENE? Following the codes and conventions of a typical thriller movie, we dressed the villain of our thriller in all black and filmed in low key lighting to emphasise their dark personality. Leading from this, using our lighting effectively, we created shadows for this character to show the audience that ‘the black figure’ bought a never-ending sense of impending doom with her. The use of these shadows also links to how we named our film ‘SHADOW’, which we chose as a euphemism for ‘stalker’ as the villain constantly follows and re-enacts the behaviour of Emily in order to hunt her down). We got the inspiration of this character from the film Fatal attraction which also has a woman stalker in. We decided to go