It represents particular social groups through the use of verisimilitude, the photos of the young girl links to the social group of a teenage girl it relates to real life in the pictures through the clothes worn and poses shown, Teenage girls can relate to this character which will add a more scary and worrying atmosphere to the film as they can see the story occurring in real life. The news report also uses verisimilitude the clothing and location we chose to shoot our news reporter scene are life like, he target market can relate to this news report as if it is real, this is the same with the choice of location and props used in our opening, for example the television, people will relate to these as regular house hold items and therefore will relate to the film more creating a eerie and worrying atmosphere.
Representation of gender
The male gender is shown to be the holder of power in our opening, he is shown to be feared of compared to the female gender shown in our film, the female’s are represented as innocent and naive, the clothes they wear signifies the age of the girls, they are shown as young and the hair styles and make up they have along with the clothes worn signifies the innocence of these girl and also creates the male gaze theory when looking thought the pictures of the girls. Throughout the film the camera shots used when showing the girls will be a high angle shot to signifies they are weak and innocent, this will create a more terrifying tone to the film as the audience will see that this girl will be helpless. Although the male character holds the power he is shown in a negative light, the blood on his hands signifies he is a violent character, along with him watching the news report on his own murder signifies he is a twisted man who should be feared. Throughout the rest of the film this character will be shown using a low angle shot to signify he is in power of the situation that he is the more dominant character, this will scare the audience and make them fear this character more. The use of a man in a suit for the news reporter signifies that the male gender is the dominant sex and will come across as more important this was unintentional however this may be how using a male news reporter may come across to the audience. It is very stereotypical for the man to overpower the woman with the male antagonist and female protagonist.
Representation of Age
The younger age is represented as nave and innocent in our film opening it shows that the male antagonist holds power over the female protagonists you can see this through the picture scene on the wall, this scene also represents the younger generation as careless just out to have fun and party this will relate to the younger viewers of the audience. The way in which our antagonist is watching his own news report signifies that the man is clever that he is not getting caught for what he is doing, this represents the older generation as wiser than the younger.
Representation of disability
Disability is not referred to Marjory in our film opening however the scene in which the male antagonist watches his own news report on the murder he committed shows signs of mental disability which creates a more terrifying effect on the audience, this scene signifies that the killer shows no regret or mercy for what he has done. This links in with the SAW (2004) in this film the male antagonist also shows signs of mental disability through torturing the victims and showing no mercy.
Representation of sexuality
Sexuality was not touched on during our film there is no reference of sexuality shown in our piece however the male is shown as dominant over the female and the male antagonist only attacks younger girl, by making the photos of girls as realistic to real life as we could we hope to create verisimilitude and create a scarier effect on our target audience as they will link what happens in our film to their lives.
Our film is shown through a male point of view in the opening however circumstances throughout the film change and it switches through the eyes of the girl.
I feel our film links well to our target audience by as I mentioned earlier it has similarities to the popular SAW (2004) films, it also follows the stereotypical background of a horror genre, it does this through the use of blood and darkness, it has a stereotypical ‘slasher’ theme to it with the male antagonist stalking/murdering the protagonists, this is like a lot of other famous popular horror genre films such as scream (1996) this film includes a male antagonist stalking/murdering victims and has the use of blood and also our film relates to scream (2004) through the use of the younger generation being the victims (teenagers) so as you can see the two films are quite similar.
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