evaluation 2 media

1. Evaluation 2
How does your media product present particular social groups?

2. Social groups in our film;
The main social groups that were used in our film are ;
• A stalker
• A mentally ill young girl

3. Emily is the main character of our film, who was put into
witness protection at a young age, after the death of her
government official parents (who were killed by a
mysterious black figure). Due to her traumatic childhood,
Emily now suffers with PTSD.
We show that Emily suffers with PTSD in various ways
throughout the opening. One way is when she is looking at
news articles reporting her parents death, they are worn
down due to show the way she looks at them frequently as
she is obsessed to how her parents died. She is also shown
to wake up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, to
then go to the church where here parents were killed,
showing the obsession with their death.
Mentally ill (Emily Ovvitz)
How have we shown this character?

4. Mentally ill (Emily Ovvitz)
Where did the inspiration for this character come from?
We got the inspiration for Emily’s character from the character ‘Charlie’
from the film ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’, a character who also suffers
from PTSD.
His PTSD stemmed from his Aunt molesting him at such a young age,
causing him serious trauma. His Aunt then died in a car crash, which he
then blames himself for her death. This leads to him have blackouts,
flashbacks and nightmares, which is where we found the inspiration for
Emily’s nightmares. We also felt that they’d been through a similar past,
with close family members death at such a young age, therefore thought that
PTSD was a disorder which linked most closely to Emily’s history.

5. Emily Ovvitz
Where did the inspiration for the mise-en-scene for this
character come from?
We dressed Emily’s character in a white shirt, showing her innocence, but the shirt
was also one of her Father’s which she had kept; showing the obsession to try and
keep close to her parents. The inspiration for dressing our character in white came
from ‘The Bride’ in the opening of ‘Kill Bill’, as she is dressed in a white wedding dress
to show her purity. The pyjamas and bed socks also represent how she had woken up
in the middle of the night to go to the church, and was not bothered about changing
clothes as the only thing on her mind was getting to the church, likewise her hair and
make up were natural as she had just woken up . Her clothing also represents her
childlike attributes, to portray how she is still trying to cling onto her childhood, as it
reminds her of when her parents were around.
The lighting we used in Emily’s shots was more high key as we felt it added to the
innocent/pure character we were trying to portray.
The main prop which we used within our opening, was a photo of Emily and her
mother which she is shown to be holding onto frequently, showing further how she
always wants her Mother near.

6. Stalker (black figure)
The stalker is the mysterious black figure which killed
Emily’s parents. She is dressed in black clothes to
emphasize that she is the villain, contrasting the purity of
Emily’s white clothes. She is out to get Emily as she see’s
her as a potential threat after she is released from witness
protection.

7. Stalker (black figure)
Where did the inspiration for this character come from?
We got the inspiration of how we will portray our villain in
the opening from the opening of the film ‘Kill Bill’. The
identity of ‘Bill’ in the opening is kept unknown and he is
only shown through his black boots and gloved hands. We
did this in a similar way, by showing the figure by black
boots and black gloves, but we did actually show the
figures full body, even though her identity is still unknown
by the audience.

8. Stalker (black figure)
Where did the inspiration for the mise-en-scene for this
character come from?
We dressed our villain in mainly black clothing, which is what is
stereotypically expected from a villain in a thriller film. We got the inspiration
for our stalker mainly from ‘Fatal Attraction’ as they don’t adhere to the usual
conventions of a thriller as they have a female stalker. We thought that this
was effective throughout the film therefore decided to use a female villain in
our film as we felt it isn’t something expected, making our film more exciting
and unusual.