Wednesday, 23 January 2013

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


My media product represents two social groups, the first one is an average working/family man. The pictures below are of this first social group represented. 


The man at the beginning is seen wearing a coat and a plain blue shirt. He also has black trousers on and all this emphasises he is a working man. As he enters the house he says "Honey I'm home!" which is a very stereotypical way of a husband greeting his wife when he returns from work. This also tells us that this man has a family. 

The man is seen picking up clothes and looking suspiciously at them, this shows he has a sense of worry because he would expect everything to be normal when he comes home much like any husband or father. We find out later in the opening that he is a father when he says "Susie?" as he enters her room. 
We see the man turning off the television and this further emphasises the fact that he, being a husband/father, would clean up after his family if there was anything left on. This also emphasises the working man social group because he is saving energy costs. 


The man runs fast through his house because he is worried about his family's whereabouts. This further emphasises that he is a caring father. The fact that he gets to the location where the note indicated shows he is dedicated to finding his family, this can be seen below.



The next social group that is represented is criminals. Below you can see the criminals apparel which is dark and hooded. This is a very stereotypical outfit for a criminal, because it would be hard to see in the night and covers his identity slightly. He also carries a weapon but one that would not be seen as a weapon, a hammer. This can deal damage but is not seen as a weapon in many peoples eyes because of it's construction use. This emphasises the criminal social group by making the man carry a weapon that is ambiguous and not straight forward aiming to kill. Also many burglars carry tools to rob houses and the hammer could've been used for that by him in the past.




Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Eradication final film and improvements.


Here is the final cut of our thriller opening "Eradication". There wasn't much to improve about the rough cut except some feedback said the music should match the footage on screen for example making a title credit come up when the hard distorted violin note strikes. So we took the advice and did that, we also fixed some colour correction that was not constant with the rest of the film. It now has fluid colour throughout in a blue tone but still keeping a realistic look.

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Thriller Improvement - Colour Correction




These screenshots show the stages we went through when colour correcting the thriller opening. When watching the thriller opening, the colour is light and doesn't fit well with the style and genre of the story, to change this and make it look more erie and darker. To do this we decreased the saturation and whites and blacks. However the shot was then too dark and was hard to see some small aspects of the scene, so to fix this we focused more on the saturation and the colours on blue. I think the it looked nice to finish with and the last screenshot shows the final choice for the colour correction.











Credits - Thriller Improvement

We decided to add to the credits: "From the book 'Path to Eradication' by Charles L Jacobs" and "and New Line Cinema present" to follow the conventions of a thriller movie more so than we had previously. We also added executive producers in the credits and ordered all the credits correctly. Below is the final list of credits for our thriller opening we also removed a couple to make the credits work with this new order. The credits now are true to the conventions of any thriller opening.

Hard Winter Studios

and New Line Cinema present

a Lord Tiberius II Production

Abby Peake

John Nicholas

Alec Thomas

Music by Sam Garbett

Editor Jake Wootton 

Cinematography Kalvin McTavish

Executive Producers Martin Price, David Hart

From the book 'Path to Eradication' by Charles L Jacobs

Directed by Sam Graves

Eradication

Font and Cuts - Thriller Improvement

We decided to improve upon our thriller movie by changing the font we are using for the credits, we also are cutting the running sequence to make it a more dramatic thriller. We also decided to add narration to the thriller to add to the dramatic aspect of it.

 Here is the new font:

New Production Company Logo - Thriller Improvement



This is the improvement we made to the company logo, we made it look more professional and artistic. This ties more with the conventions of a production companies logo that produce thrillers.