Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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My Thriller sequence talks about a young adult that to save her ill sister is disposed to kill people in exchange to the cure. This young boy goes through lots, risking his life and finding enemies that would try to kill him playing around with his emotions, feelings and brain thinking.

The opening sequence of the movie is the main character trapped in a cell full of keys hanged up and just one padlock, he needs to try to escape before they will come to shot him. Time setting is based on a routing repeating several time getting louder as time pass, foot steps, the cell opening, gun shot and a body falling.

This thriller sequence is really physiological and includes use of strong language as well as action, so it is aimed mainly for male teenagers young adults audience.

The clip represents this social group in vary ways: firstly the mise-sense, as it plays a big part of the whole sequence.

It is based in a cell made of grey concrete walls that gives the idea of claustrophobia, increasing the tension through out the scenes, following up with props, hundreds of keys that filled up the whole set and a single padlock, those are designed in a old fashion, giving to the audience a different point of view and making the scene more interesting for the viewers.

This is considered a complicated set of an opening sequence creating confusion to the audience and wanting to know more about the rest, for those reasons it will intrigue more male young adults audience instead of young children that wouldn’t understand the plot in the first place or middle age adults that are more into straight forward well plotted movies. Also the main character is wearing a suite and he looks bitten up to emphases more the idea of action and mystery, the stereotypical interests from this targeted audience. The main character wearing a suite also represent the upper class and status, making his character more important, or someone that is definitely gaining enough money to live or it has a well fame job. It could also mean a costume for a fake perspective to look at the character, as we are talking about a thriller it would be part of the mystery of it.

Secondly the sound plays an important role in the clip as there are different sounds included that together help the audience to understand the idea of action and tension.

The first sound we can here is a non-diegetic dripping sound with an eco effect to encourage the idea of depth of the location, this would also suggest the idea of being underground so in a hidden location and not really appealing with low living conditions, a younger audience wouldn’t appreciate this as would be clear for them, oppositely for our targeted audience is an encouraging sound that will impose questions and the needed to watch more. At the beginning of the scene just the dripping sound effect have been added, increasing the quietness and silence of the opening, as we learnt most of the times silent is the most powerful sound effect that you could ever find as human as they are sounded by noise the all the day it is unusual to have for few seconds a moment of complete silent adding feeling of uncomforted. A male grown up audience would enjoy this feeling more as they won’t feel in power of what is happening and their curiosity will keep them watching the movie.

Than we have the sound effect of voices talking, this sound is unclear to carry on with idea of depth and it last for few seconds and you won’t here it again, so wonder is an emotion added to the sequence. In this opening sequence there is a compilation of sounds put together that would give the idea of time running, increasing but loudness, this sequence is a man walking, the cell’s bars opening, a gun shot and a body falling. This increases the tension through out the clip, to add even more of those feeling of frustration and tension the character started to panic reacting with the uses of strong language and movements. This would be too inappropriate for a child to watch and hear, and probably not so interesting for a grown up adult as they have watched so many movie and they would probably find too predictable for their interests. Female usually they dislike the uses of strong language in a movie and stereotypically they prefer a romance with a simple script and low tone of volume.

In this opening sequence there non diegetic sound of the dripping water, cells opening, foot steps, gun shots and bodies falling, to add there is the diegetic sound of the main character getting frustrated and pleonastic sound of the keys falling on the ground, key inserted in the padlock and banging of the door. Sound plays a big role for this clip especially as most sounds are non-diegetic so you cannot see them.

Thirdly Camera movements show verity of perspective, including different shots in the sequence to intrigue the viewers to watch more and try to be part of the actual movie. Some shots are wide shots to show the location and its design, also close ups of the surrounding to get closer to the actual character and show more details, that the audience would have missed.

This change of shots for a child wouldn’t be so clear as cartoon are compose from basic shots and lots of colours to attract their attention, but for our targeted audience they would want to know more and try to look behind the focused point. We played around with camera movements showing pans and focused to unfocused points of views changing their perspective for the audience, this would increase the needed to watch more as the audience wouldn’t get bored but for a female they wouldn’t find it so interesting especially if the focused points are parts of the location, a location compare from few elements and dull lighting.

Finally Editing shows the paste of the sequence changing through the clip, it starts slowly, getting faster and slowing again towards the end of the opening. We used clean cuts to show a faster paste and to keep the audience concentrated. This will add more tensions for the audience sorts of feeling that a female audience wouldn’t appreciate as much, and for a child too distracting and demonstrating to be incapable to read behind the lines and be frightened by the happening.

To conclude we find out that an audience composed by male young adults would be perfect for put thriller as they would enjoy the verity of feeling and emotions, and they would intrigue by the location and plot of the movie.