Evaluation of the Final Project(Rough Work)

This post is a rough evaluation which i wrote to make sure that i have enough content to write my fair evaluation. This is thus a practice evaluation attempt. The "fair" and proper evaluation questions are answered on the First and Second pages of the blog.

We had to answer the following questions to evaluate our final film:

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Answer:

- Our film is from the suspense/horror/slasher genre. Such films require some enigma and since we have been doing opening titles, we tried to create some enigma at the end of the opening title after some slow paced shots.

- Though there are no marks for it, good acting was necessary in our film because we needed to be able to describe the reactions of the actor and make it clear for the audience to know the atmosphere of the time and for that good acting was needed.

- We have also broken a convention of slasher films. Mostly the male is the killer, however in our film, the female is the killer. We hope that this will attract females to watch our movie as well.

- We have also used betrayal as our theme and also as the reason that causes the girl Ria to take revenge from Henry. That is explained a bit through the voiceovers in the answering machine.

- The color for Ria’s clothes were black because it portrayed her as being the killer and also as the person who would take revenge. The color black often represents gloom, revenge, anger hatred etc. so that is why we used Ria’s dressing in black.

- We kept the shade in our film dark purposely, to bring in the mystery and gloom that was to come in the end. We used soundtracks as well to create the thrilling atmosphere. We used tracks by two musicians. Kevin Macleod(http://incompetech.com/) and Danish.

- We used formal dressing for Henry to show that he was a rich person and also to show that he was in his twenty’s as well as we needed to show that he was an older person and our actor was seventeen. The shot of Henry coming in the car also showed that he was a rich person, a mature person, having a driver added to it as well. We chose my house for the location because we thought that a big house would add to the personality of the character of Henry.

- In the opening credits we gave the name of Dimension Films and our own production company as we had seen it in many films that although the logo would appear separately, their names would be given in the opening credits as well. It was just something we used to make the film seem more professional. 

 




- Most production companies have their own logos so we made one for our group.

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Answer:

- The only social group it represents is the high class society and some of it is depicted through the dialogues of the two girls who have left messages on his answering machine. Those dialogues show the way of talking and conversing of the high class society.

- Our film also represents the females in this modern age and their behavior towards males, especially in the high class society and this is also done through the dialogues of the answering machine.

- The formal dressing of Henry and his house and car show that he is a rich man and that he belongs to the high class society.

- We have also shown the betrayal and unfaithfulness between couples in the high class society and the eagerness for revenge.

- The reason why Henry acts really tired is because he comes from a party and this is further clarified through the messages heard on Henry’s answering machine. It depicts the undisciplined and care free attitude of the high class society and the types of social gatherings they have.