Evaluation Question 2: How does your Media Product Represent Social Groups?

There are two main characters in our project: the innocent girl and the male psychotic. We want our female character to be a middle class and she is western. Also, she needs to be a teenage girl as it would attract more audiences as teenage is an attractive theme to construct. For the male psychotic, we want him to be a middle-aged man.

To support the representation of an innocent girl, we required Franky (our actress) to have a white top. The colour white usually brings the connotation of “innocence”. Also, white helps to reflect the truth in term of brightness. Further more, as we want our character to be a white female so we used Franky as her appearance is typically a European teenage girl: blond hair and her skin is white. In order to construct her class, which is supposed to be a middle-class teenage, her cloths will be very simple: a white top and black tights. In addition, we represented her as she had been through a horrible chasing in the woods. So, Alex (our creative artist) put mud and blood on her body. We also used a knife to tear off the tight to make it look like the branch of trees did it.

In order to represent the male psychotic, we used Russell, an actor introduced by our teacher. He is a perfect one for us as he is a middle-aged man and his profession is a doctor. To construct the form of a doctor, we borrowed the white operation coat from our school chemistry’s lab which looks perfectly similar. Again, the white coat associates with the white top that the girl wears which was established before, escalating the theme of innocence. Moreover, to make him look more horrible and peculiar, we got him a visor from the chemistry lab and an operation mask from the san. They all worked perfectly in terms of creating a bizarre doctor whom will confuse the audience not knowing if he is good or bad.
We mainly focus on the innocence of the girl as it will create more tension and nastiness in our project. The use of innocence to be treated horrifically will go against the original idea of “you have what you did”. On the other hand, doing good things will result in better consequences.

To construct the innocence in terms of using camera angle, we mainly had a close up of the girl and high angle to her face as well. The aim of these shots is to stand out the facial expressions of the innocence of the girl. Similarly to the doctor, we had his face shot closed up in order to construct the insanity/personal gratification after the killing scene. (I.e. the crossing eye could be observed after he had killed the girl).