Final Product Evaluation Questions 1 and 2
Below is attached the written form of the questions and answers. Beneath the written form, you will find our presentation version of it in a video form.
1. In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We challenge the mystery of the viewer by leaving a cliff hanger, as to whether or not the antagonist is in the protagonists head or not. We create this effect by the way that the antagonist repeatedly changes position without actually having to move. This creates the sense of “Paranoia”, our products title. We also build up tension by the lack of background sound/dialogue, and the use of suspenseful music. Towards the end of the product, the audience will hear a frequency building up as the antagonist is about to be revealed, however the product fades to black just before you see the antagonists face, and the frequency cuts out very sharply. This creates tension as well as suspense.
The way that the light in the movie progressively gets darker, shows that the situation as a whole is also getting darker. At first you just see the antagonists face, so it is hard to make a presumption about his character, whereas at the end he is seen as threatening and dangerous. Likewise, at the beginning of the product it is daytime, whereas towards the end it is in the evening. The use of this camerawork helps to give the audience an idea that the whole situation might be in the protagonists head.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our Media product represented different social group’s very subtlety. Our product only featured 2 different characters, but both of these contrasted very extremely. We found it rather difficult to fully represent the different social classes entirely, as our product didn’t feature any dialogue what so ever. However, we were able to represent the two different classes through the use of costume. Both characters costumes gave the audience a hint of what the characters’ lives/careers were like, for instance; our protagonist was dressed in a suit, which led the audience to believe that this man is just your ‘average Joe’, and if you saw him in person you would just expect him to be a higher class citizen, with a normal job and normal lifestyle. However, our antagonist was dressed in all black, which led the audience to presume that he has a dark personality and lives a low class lifestyle. We also see our protagonist holding a cell phone at the beginning, and as we also see him in a suit, we typically see him as an important business man.
We challenge the mystery of the viewer by leaving a cliff hanger, as to whether or not the antagonist is in the protagonists head or not. We create this effect by the way that the antagonist repeatedly changes position without actually having to move. This creates the sense of “Paranoia”, our products title. We also build up tension by the lack of background sound/dialogue, and the use of suspenseful music. Towards the end of the product, the audience will hear a frequency building up as the antagonist is about to be revealed, however the product fades to black just before you see the antagonists face, and the frequency cuts out very sharply. This creates tension as well as suspense.
The way that the light in the movie progressively gets darker, shows that the situation as a whole is also getting darker. At first you just see the antagonists face, so it is hard to make a presumption about his character, whereas at the end he is seen as threatening and dangerous. Likewise, at the beginning of the product it is daytime, whereas towards the end it is in the evening. The use of this camerawork helps to give the audience an idea that the whole situation might be in the protagonists head.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our Media product represented different social group’s very subtlety. Our product only featured 2 different characters, but both of these contrasted very extremely. We found it rather difficult to fully represent the different social classes entirely, as our product didn’t feature any dialogue what so ever. However, we were able to represent the two different classes through the use of costume. Both characters costumes gave the audience a hint of what the characters’ lives/careers were like, for instance; our protagonist was dressed in a suit, which led the audience to believe that this man is just your ‘average Joe’, and if you saw him in person you would just expect him to be a higher class citizen, with a normal job and normal lifestyle. However, our antagonist was dressed in all black, which led the audience to presume that he has a dark personality and lives a low class lifestyle. We also see our protagonist holding a cell phone at the beginning, and as we also see him in a suit, we typically see him as an important business man.
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