1. Evaluation Lauren Anthony Candidate Number: 4003

6. How does your media product represent particular social groups? Alex Forrest – Fatal Attraction Amy Williams – Our protagonist Teddy Daniels – Shutter Island Our protagonist, played by Amy Williams, is shown to have psychotic episode in the woods on her way home from school. The aim was to ensure that we incorporated as many aspects of psychological thrillers as we c ould. I started watching some other examples of psychological thrillers to enable me to have an idea of how to portray Amy’s character, so I therefore watched one modern example of a psychological thriller, and another more dated but equally effective one – the modern example being Shutter Island , starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and the timeless thriller being Fatal Attraction , starring Glenn Close.

14. Matt and I learnt very quickly that it was important to have the equipment ready to use before considering going out to film, as if the camera is not charged properly for example, or the right tripod isn’t used, there would be issues with the length of filming time we would have. We learnt so much from the framing of the shots, and how to use the tripod effectively, as without it we would have been experiencing unsteady and unfocused shots. It is important to ensure that the tripod is loose enough to allow the camera to move easily, and allow panning and tracking shots to be filmed with ease. Here is a photograph that I took of Matt using the camera and the tripod. The cameras were very easy to use and the tripods were easy to set up, as they screwed on easily and without hassle, meaning it took under five minutes to prepare for filming tasks. Sound was another very important aspect that I had to get used to. We realised that it was important to be able to sync the music with the footage otherwise the film makes no sense,

17. Sound: Matt and I really struggled to find suitable music for both our preliminary and our final, and as our preliminary also contained dialogue we had to really concentrate on syncing the music and the edited film appropriately. We didn’t want our music to be overbearing and loud, so getting the frequency and the tone right was down to a lot of trial and error. We didn’t want sound to give the plot away, so to come to too much of a climax before the action, as we wanted to create tension right until the very last moment. Titles and credits: We saw no need for a title or credits for our preliminary, and it took time for us to find the right fonts and decide whether a white out or a black out fade at the end would be more effective. We had to ensure that the credits weren’t too cliché and over stereotypical, as we didn’t want to risk our film looking unprofessional. Costume and Make-up: In our preliminary task, the use of makeup was more obvious as we had used white face powder, eye makeup and fake blood, but for our final piece there was no need except every day facial makeup, as we wanted Amy’s character as believable as possible otherwise we would end up with our result being unrealistic looking.