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This is a Pecha Kucha which I produced, I consists of 20 slides each lasting for 20 seconds (this is to help flow the explanation quickly and skip out all the the parts which aren't necessary.

 

As a group we discussed the different social groups, that relate to our film noir such as;

  • Location - The lumberjack shows an insolated place in the woods, and a more rural, destructed. this represents his life as he has broken and is in a pessimistic place and has giving up. This could relate/appeal to people who feel socially isolated.

  • Cast - All of our cast is caucassian, meaning that this connects with the cast in taditional film noirs of the 1950s ( as this was a time where race were divided and the caucassian race got the leading roles). This relates our film noir to a traditional film noir, but may appeal to caucassian people more.

  • Lumberjack - Isn't like a relateable to an audience as he is homelss and live by himself, this contrasts as this will appeal to the homeless as he are relatable to them, making the audience more likely to emphasize with him instead of realting to him. I would definetly say that this character meets the stereotype ashe is wering slighlty rugged clothes for a film noir, he isn't dress up in a suit instead he is wearing a checked shirt and jeans, and also in sleeping in a broken home with rubbish everywhere and destroyed walls and windows. 

  • Body language - The body language of the lumberjack shows a slightly careless posture, where he looks confident but you know that he is stuggling, but repress this this feeling as it suits the mainly stereotype of a man in the 1950s.

  • Camera Angles ;  

  • Close ups, this shows emotion from the lumberjack to empathises with him as an audience which will interest people in the same position as the lumberjack.

  • Low angles, this focuses on the gangsters and the wolf, this implies that these characters have the most power. And possible makeour production appeal to the middle class/ working class social group as they are the people with least amount of power.

  • High angles, This is to show the lumberjack's innocense, and that he is alone. This is would appeal to possibly shy people to and appeal to people who are similar in personality to the lumberjack.

Q2) How does your media product present particular social groups?

Script

 

1) This Is my evaluation on our opening title sequence for question 2 How does your media product represent different social groups, I will be talking about Characters, Location, mise-en-scene, props, dialogue, sound, lighting, Target audiences and exhibition of our film. (0)

2) Our main protagonist is male so it keeps the generic features of the film noir, this also means that it would appeal to men more instead of women. He is a homeless man and as he struggles fitting in to society so he segregates himself so this will be relatable to those social isolated. He isn’t a fancy showman type of everyman he is a bit more down to earth which makes him relatable to most men I would say. (20)

3 )Our opening title sequence suits the generic features of film noirs, by featuring white people, meaning that it would be more relatable to white people as the main protagonist is white. All the characters are young adults meaning that wouldn’t necessarily appeal to an older audience based on the way they look and speak. (40)

4) Fabian was our location manager and he picked the locations carefully as we wanted to have an isolated place to show loneliness and abandonment and to contrast this by having a city suburban street with all the people and the business, this shows 2 different types of people the rural people and industrial we wanted it to appeal to more rural people than industrial people. (1.00)

5) The dialogue is from mainly jack (lumberjack) and Chloe (red riding hood), they both have a British accent and speak English so I would mainly appeal to people in the UK and the US and other English speaking countries. As it is to do mainly with people understanding the way we speak. (1.20)

6) The camera angles show different sides of the everyman as at the start you see him lying on the ground shows a sense of equality with the audience and the main protagonist, this shows to the audience that the lumberjack is the empathy character, this the character we’re supposed to follow. (1.40)

7) There are a few low angles of the camera looking up at the lumberjack, this shows that the lumberjack is in control of this area and he belongs here and not in the city. He prefers to be alone. But we also have a high angle to contradict this to show his innocence especially when walking down the stairs. (2.00)

8) Lots of over the shoulder shots and PoV shots were used as it gets the audience to put themselves in position of the lumberjack and to see things through his eyes as a lot of the audience wouldn’t know what it is like to be segregated/homeless so we wanted to show our thoughts what it is like to be the lumberjack. (2.20)

9 )I think the props seem bit suitable for the middle aged range and possibly the young generation as I think they look authentic to the scenes. All of the characters are wearing clothes liking to a film noir. Referencing clothes, they wore in the 1950s apart from the main protagonist as we wanted to give a neo noir feel with main character being like the audience in the modern times. (2.40)

10) There are a few props which make the film suitable for audience of the older generation, with guns, axes and cigarettes giving it a violent edge, obviously it doesn’t look violent at the moment as this is the opening title sequence. And not the full thing. (3.00)

11) The first song doesn’t suit a film noir but it does link well as neo noir soundtrack as it references the red riding trilogy, as one of the pieces is just a single acoustic guitar, it is very minimal which is what we wanted in ours so I recorded neo noir soundtrack. (3.20)

12) As the direction we are going in for our opening title sequence is leaning towards a Neo noir we decided to have a blues track but make it a bit darker and a bit modern to suit our target audience of the modern generation. (3.40)

13) Our opening title sequence will be exhibited at cinemas internationally to British speaking countries as that would allow it to be available to everyone who speaks English. (4.00)

14) A lot of our lighting is natural, especially in the lumberjack’s home, to show the nature feel, to express the lumberjack as a lonely being who is open to the world he lives in, this shows to the audience that the lumberjack is the good guy and we want the audience to recognise what it is like the be a lone. (4.20)

15) I think that the audience will be interested and enjoy the film based on the opening sequence as it leaves the end of the opening title sequence and a stimulant to carry on watching it and the audience wants to know what happens to the lumberjack and what he has to do. (4.40)

16) The lighting in the Wolf’s business room suits the film noir genre as it clearly shows a contrast in light and shade as you can see the shadows casted from the characters. This relates our opening title sequence back to a film noir as based on the start it might not clear that it is a film noir. (5.00)

17) I think our opening title sequence suits our audiences as it suits the age range being the younger generation, as we include young adults as all of our cast. But the violent aspect of all the props boost up the age range to people in their 20s. like I said the main protagonist is male so it will appeal to males. (5.20)

18) Our nationality of our target audience is British and the united states as they are English speaking countries, and our main characters speak English. The education of the audience doesn’t strictly focus on people with a certain education, however it will possibly focus on people in secondary education as it will suit the age and allow a wider audience (5.40)

19) The opening sequence definitely suits the audience of the film fanatics as I wouldn’t suit any other cinema audience its link very well to the film fanatics as it isn’t going to be a high budget film. (6.00)

Analysis

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