Evaluation Activity 2

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

The Similarities/Differences Between Our Protagonist and 'Snow White'

1) The similarities of both female protagonists are: that they are under threat by an antagonist: 'The Stalker' and for Snow White: 'The Queen', who will later be defeated by Snow White. Both of the female protagonists are seen as vulnerable in the situation as they are shown to be easy targets. Looking at the image of 'Snow White & The Huntsman', the main colours shown are dark blues contrasted with the light in the background which is an element within the thriller genre. in the same way, we have tried to do this by using dark lighting and dark colours for the costumes for example, 'The Stalker' (antagonist) is completely covered in black clothing. The differences between the protagonist within our production and Snow White is that Snow White expresses her view vocally whereas our production doesn't contain any dialogue. This will make it harder to convey the emotions of our protagonist. The way we got around this obstacles was by expressing her emotions through her body language and facial expressions.



 The Similarities/Differences Between The Antagonists

The Similarities/Differences Between The Antagonists

The similarities between both of the antagonists are that they are wearing completely black clothing which represents the darkness and mystery within their characters. It also predicts what they will be like in the future of the films. The dark colours give a sense of imbalance. Looking at both images, the first one, the female antagonist is looking down at the subject and so is the male antagonist in our production. This indicates that the characters portray themselves as being superior, a trait which villains often show in thrillers. Again, like the protagonists, the antagonist in our film hasn't been given any dialogue therefore we had to portray his character more in depth with his body language. By not having dialogue helped us to create mystery with the character. In comparison to the 'Queen' in 'Snow White & The Huntsman', she was given dialogue which helped to depict the type of character that she was. By not having dialogue within our film did seem effective as we were able to integrate different sound effects to create verisimilitude in our opening sequence.

In conclusion, both our film and the comparison depicted the thriller genre in different ways. As our production didn't contain dialogue, we had to rely on the use of non-diegetic sound for majority our production.

Evaluation Activity: 1

Evaluation Activity 1

Analyse An Opening Sequence To A Film: Part 2

The Dark Knight Rises is a thriller film about how after a decade of catastrophic events in the city of Gotham, Batman (The Dark Knight) turns himself in as the murderer of Harvey Dent: a high profile criminal. Because of this, the level of chaos has dropped and Gotham has become a much  quieter city. Just after things settle down within Gotham City, a new criminal introduces himself: Bane, a vengeful criminal who wants to reveal the truth about the murder case on Harvey Dent and display his true identity.
Bruce Wayne (also known as Batman) has accommodated himself at the newly built Wayne Manor and has become extremely reserved and it has become rare for him to be seen leaving the building. Bane's actions have stepped up a level which has shifted the thinking of Bruce Wayne and has no longer kept him in withdrawal, he steps out into the city to stop the corruption that Bane is causing. Bruce Wayne seeks Selina Kyle's (a thief) help who could potentially stop Bane's actions.

The film starts of by establishing the area and surroundings which is a rural area: isolated with no inhabitants and separated from the urban world. The government agency have just found Bane and his men and are taking him into their airplane. The government agents don't realise that one of these men is actually Bane: covered with a face mask until one of the agent's takes the mask off of him. Once this has happened, Bane and his men take authority over the plane and become superior characters. His crew attaches the plane to one above them so that Bane can escape with the doctor and leave the rest of the government agents behind to crash land once the plane is released. Once Bane has released the plane, he seen exiting with the doctor, this could signify and foreshadow how Bane will manipulate him in the future and use him to his own advantage.

The mise-en-scene within the opening sequence displays both non-diegetic and diegetic sound: background music (score music) which sounds sinister and builds up tension and diegetic sound: the voices of the characters speaking to each other and the noise of objects within the scene. the diegetic sound becomes louder as the scene becomes intense and tension builds up between the characters as they know that they are going to crash land soon as Bane has taken over the plane. The editing that is used to portray the scenes show a lot of cutting back and forth from one character to another showing the anxiety between them as they (the agents) have just come into contact with a high-profile criminal. There are also two-shots which are used to depict the conversation between Bane and the government representative and several high angles are used to show authority over certain characters (Bane being at the top of the airplane just before he releases it to be crashed whilst the agents are at the bottom). The high angles signify power and dominance which are displayed through Bane's character.
The lighting that is used is bright as the surrounding area is outside in the morning, the colours that the characters are wearing are quite dark: blue, grey, green, black and brown which contrast with the lighting and create sense of darkness and seriousness between the characters. These colour could also possibly foreshadow events that are to occur late on in the film.

Analyse Opening Sequence To A Film : The Dark Knight Rises