Evaluation Part 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our opening sequence we wanted to make it clear what part each of the characters played so that the audience will immediately know what genre we have chosen for out open sequence. We based our idea of the villian on the villan of Scream. We based it on there as the opening sequences are similar, for example they both get in contact with the victim first by phone. Due to our knowledge in media films, we have watched alot of horror films so we can gain an overall stereotypical view of a villian. The main conventions we have found of a villian is that they wear dark clothes, and could have a mask so this gives them a hidden identity. Also, they usually have a weapon ready to show their dangerous and again reinforce that they are a villian. 


We compared the similarities and differences between our 'Over Time' villian and the 'Scream' villian. The similarities between these two characters, is that they both have a hidden identity this is so that they create a negative affect on the atmosphere and that they wont be easily seen, both the characters are wearing black. Another similarity is that they both target a vulnerable woman, this is maybe because they may feel like they have authority over the woman. Our third similarity is that they both spy on the character beforehand, in our opening sequence we do not see that our character is spying however we are given an indication that they are as the phone call beforehand reveals that the villian was ringing her and then hanging up making sure she was alone, in Scream we can see that the villian spies on his victim beforehand as he also rings her and talks to her and then also we can tell by the use of over the shoulder and point of view shots he has of the young victim. Our last similarity between these two villians is that they both target in an isolated setting, this is very stereotypical as no villian would target there victim in a crowded area unless they wanted to get caught! Our villian captures the victim in an empty eerie school where she is working overtime, and in Scream the villian targets their victim while she is alone in her house watching a film. 


However, there are also some key differences between these villians, for example our villian does not wear a mask, we chose for the villian not to wear a mask as we didn't want the character to come across too stereotypical, we just wanted to keep it realistic with just a little bit of hidden identity to create a sense of mystery, however, in Scream their villian is wearing a mask, this may relate to their genre more as the genre of Scream is a horror, whereas we wanted to have our genre as a psychological thriller. Another difference between these two villians is that in our opening sequence our villian is shown to have no weapons, we decided against this for the same reason as before with the masks as we wanted to keep a sense of mystery with the villian character and keep the audience guessing with what could happen to the victim after the opening sequence and how the villian tries to attempt to create danger for our victim, however within Scream they use a weapon which helps us follow the narrative as we also know what is going to happen and the villians intentions. Our last difference is that in our sequence our villian doesn't talk, we wanted to keep our opening sequence mysterious but with a sense of vulnerability, we wanted to have the non diegetic music playing as if you have a lot of talking then it could take away from the sense of fear, as the audience will find out too much. However, in Scream, we hear the villian talking to the victim on the phone, this gives us an idea that even though we havent seen the villian that someone is watching the victim, however it also starts to scare the victim even though nothing has happened yet so it feels her with vulnerability and dread.