Q2-How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

Q2-How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

Protagonist

In our opening we introduce the main character and only her so we only represented one type of social group. Different types of genre all have their own codes and conventions So we needed to make our main character appearance and other suit the genre, her costume is a normal top and trousers to show that she is a young teenager so it will be more dramatic rather than her wearing something glamorous or working class. It will also send a message to the audience that she is still young and has a lot of life ahead of her which makes the story more dramatic. We used props like the photo album to show what she has been through and show her happiest emotions, this is a big contrast to how she actually feels in this point in her life. This can make the audience feel sorrier for her and see how her life turned upside down, we also used make-up in the photo album pictures to show how beautiful and model-like she is to show how perfect she looks because when the audience sees a beautiful girl, they never expect anything bad or sad to happen to the girl so it adds dramatic feel to the drama genre. Her dialogue was short but effective, you can tell that something really bad has happen and can feel this girl’s pain. This is similar to ‘Seven pounds’ because near to the end of the opening Will Smith says “In 7 days god created the world... And in 7 seconds, I shattered mine” this is an emotional line so the audience felt his pain, it also goes well with the non-diegetic sound. This is what we were trying to do with the narration, a short statement but emotional. The main character was a popular girl so you'll imagine she be beautiful, happy and everyone loved her, we showed a bit of this in the opening sequence by her photos e.g. with her friends. We thought Esma from the other media class suited this role because we knew she was confident, willing to work and how she speaks was like how a popular girl would sound if we gave her the right advice. We were going for a model look e.g. white girl, brunette and slim and Esma matched all three.

Q1,In what ways does your media product USE, DEVELOP or CHALLENGE forms and conventions of real media products?

Q1,In what ways does your media product USE, DEVELOP or CHALLENGE forms and conventions of real media products?

The film was called 'Eternal Beauty'. It is a drama genre. It is really easy to tell it is a drama genre because of the non-diegetic sound and how our main character is presented. Normal films have a happy ending, where everyone is living good lives after, this ending although she has come a long way and have been successful with the message she wanted to tell people but she eventually dies of cancer. This adds more to the drama effect.
Our opening sequence does include codes and conventions of a drama which has so the audience can work out what genre it is from the start. An example of this is how she is kneeling on the ground. This shows us that she is weak, vulnerable and feels she cannot take life anymore because of how sad she is. We needed to show the main character like this so the audience feels more involved in the story and can tell straight away what the genre is rather than her just sitting on a table with her photo album because it doesn’t give no clues how the character is feeling which would not give a drama effect. Another example is how the camera shots are slow and edited so it dissolves between every shot. This is because it gives the audience a clue of the genre usually if shots are faster they are usually associated with being an action movie, gangster movie etc. We needed to have slow pace shots so it will show it is a drama and the non diegetic sound fitted with the pace. We had to keep it nice and simple but effective instead of added to many things that would confuse the audience.
We included themes like love, dream, life, hope, sadness, hate.
These themes all fit in our movie category. We included all these themes in our opening sequence, so the audience was kept interested. The theme of hate is a big contrast to the others e.g. love and hope. It fits in because she experience people that hate her or envy her and how she has to hold all this pain in herself which eventually turns to hate.

Storyboard 2

StoryBoard 2

Location Reece

Location Recce

Location Details
Possible problems
Risks assessments
Drama Block Corner

Outside sports hall


Common Room

Stairs- media block

Entrance


Lockers

Classroom M2



Green Place











Netball players

Road


Chairs, rubbish, noise.

People and noise

Cars noise and kids.

Wrong key


Door problems, slipping, people coming in and out.

Could get dirty.
Electrical, disabled toilets.

Someone could get hurt
Cars

Someone could trip over a chair

Someone could trip over a step and fall down.

Accidents.

Locker could slap someone in the face.


Someone could slip on the floor.


Someone could trip over the curtain. Or the curtain can just fall.

Storyboard

Storyboard

Story Board

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Contract

Contract


By signing this contract I agree to the following conditions put to me by the production team.

Turn up on time
Bring props which I have confirmed I will bring in. (prom dress, home photo’s, school dress, Casual clothing)
Commit myself to after school shooting according to timetable.
To co-operate with the production team at all times.
To be professional at all times.
To attend rehearsal’s according to timetable.
Provide contact information (mobile number , address, email)

We understand that you are also in the process of you pre-production and are thankful for your commitment and co-operation. If at anytime you want to contact the production team our information is as stated below. Thank you


Signature of Student………………………

Joshua Freeland (Director) - freelandjo@babbey.bardaglea.org.uk
Daniel Mutambo (Camera) - mutamboda@babbey.bardaglea.org.uk
Antoinette seki (Sound) - sekian@babbey.bardaglea.org.uk

Character analysis

Protagonist

Antagonist