1) The document evaluates a school media coursework project that created a film in the superhero genre about two female high school students who are secretly superheroes. 2) It discusses genre conventions the project incorporated like the students being social outcasts and having superhero costumes/masks, while challenging the typical stereotype by having female leads instead of male ones. 3) The evaluation analyzes the project's narrative structure, use of voiceovers, portrayal of social groups, and how it makes the superhero genre appealing to both female and male audiences.

1. AS Media Coursework Evaluation
By Pavan Singh Mangat

2. Evaluation
Our chosen genre for this piece of footage was the superhero genre. The
footage explains how two completely different school girls are actually
superheroes and there’s a plot from the headmaster to get rid of them. The
setting used in the film was in a high school . We got this idea after viewing
many superhero films and films such as Spider Man and kick ass took this
concept too. We kept this idea due to the fact it can
relate the the target audience we were targeting which
was the female teenager audience. This follows onto
One stereotypical factor of superheroes that we chose
To change. This is the fact that our main characters
Both Females instead of males. We thought this would
Be a good and beneficial idea as it would attract and
Introduce the female young market to superhero films.
In Most superhero films, the hero is first seen as an
unpopular person or that they weren’t to be seen with a certain social group.
That is a strong theme in out film clip as the two females are part of different
social groups, in a sence this is a binary opposition that is
Formed. This sense of individualization is also seen in
Spiderman with peter parker being classed as a “nerd” and
Also in kick ass for the same reasons. We decided to go
Along with this as it can relate to pupils in school in same
Situations and also it shows that no matter what these two

3. Evaluation
Most films in this genre start from the origin in the past and reasons for the
character turning out the way they are in the present, this is seen in films such as
batman and Xmen origins where the beginning is set in the past. Our film does
the reverse and within the first 3 minutes the plot is revealed
and characters are introduced. We chose to do this as it
Makes the viewer more curious into the past and reasoning
for the characters attitudes and personalities and so later on
everything would be revealed.
We introduced the voice over where the heroes are seen
together in a corridoor so they go there own seperate ways.
The voice over is stating how things arent fair and the
situation is wrong. We used the voice over due to the fact that superhero films
based on students; again spiderman and kickass both have introducing voice
overs which go on to say how they are unpopular or the negatives in their life.

4. Evaluation
In the film we kept the conventional stereotype of costume which I say is a mask,
the cape and a colour theme. I say these because in major films such as batman
and superman a mask is work by batman as he’s a vigilante, both of them have
capes and the colour schemes match the superhero.
Keeping this aspect allows us to show how these two
Characters are totally different (shown in the colour
Scheme) and how they are still a team (identical style
Of clothing).
There is only one major way in which our clip challenges the typical stereotyped
Superhero films and that is in the gender of characters and target audiences. The
fact that we put it as a female based film makes it unique in the genre but still
follows the action guidelines. Males still would watch this as they have been
interested female side ons before such as wonder woman and cat woman. So
this way the male population are still engaged by the film but also the female
population can get into the superhero films without it being dominated by males.

5. Evaluation
Our clip portrays three types of social groups in society. One groups being the
males, the other group being the
classed “goth” group and a girly
girl group. Males in this clip are
shown to be the more dominating
with the villian having a more
direct voice and serious presence
and a male student taking control of a situation and sorting it out.
The more personalty social group of “Goth or Greebos” is shown by a main
character through mis en scene. Her clothing is of a dark and bold nature with
a lot of dark purples and black being shown.
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