Our media product of our movie opening presents different types of social groups. For example it shows the social group of teenagers, specifically teenage boys who are stereotypically thought to be trouble makers, which is what we are representing in our media product through the fact that the police officer thinks that the teenagers are up to something, when in reality they are not. We show the social group of police officers who are often portrayed as serious and are of a higher class in society due to their authority upon everyone. We show this through the instinct to arrest the teenagers without thought, the police officer shown in our media product will go right into questioning the teenagers without hesitation.
I have created a Pinterest board where I have collated images and representations of the social groups in my film opening. I have added analyses and descriptions in the comment box below the image. Please open my live link HERE ON PINTEREST.
Character Interviews (may take a while for interviews to load)
We decided to interview our characters, to get to know them. We got our inspiration from what we learned from a blog called Film Escape. This screenshot is from the website called Film Escape, and is on this post Charlie Sierra writes about a man called Pen Densham who is an Oscar nominated film maker who has made 16 Feature Films. Pen Densham uses the technique of questioning his characters in order to get to know them better. This way he can learn how the characters work which allows Pen Densham to understand each character when filming a feature film. Questioning the characters means that Pen Densham can understand their personalities as well as the way they work.
For our film opening we interviewed our Police Man at the stage where we find out he has been involved in a hit and run accident. Here a police psychiatrist questions the police officer, questioning him about his mentality as well as getting to know what made the police officer commit such a crime and not report it.
The interview is here:
Psychiatrist: Hello, how are you?
Police Officer: Not bad, I’m pretty good thank you.
Psychiatrist: So, have you been alright recently… has there been anything on your mind at all and still there now?
Police Officer: I’ve just been under a lot of pressure recently.
Psychiatrist: From work?
Police Officer: Mainly from work, but also from home I guess.
Psychiatrist: What’s been happening at work that’s causing you to stress?
Police Officer: I am failing to meet deadlines, my boss is angry, the work is piling and don’t get much time at home for my family.
Psychiatrist: Ok, do you think this has affected you mentally, like do you think it has influenced the accident that happened earlier this week.
Police Officer: What accident? There wasn’t one that involved me.
Psychiatrist: I want you to be honest with me now because I am suspicious of the way you are acting. (Squints eyes)
Police Officer: Okay, yes there was… but it wasn’t anything major I promise. (Rubbing his hands acting aggravated in his chair)
Psychiatrist: Ah, I see. So I am right in saying that there was an accident on your terms and yours only?
Police Officer: Unfortunately yes. (Looks down to his feet)
Psychiatrist: Right… Here is how I’m going to help (places hand on the file of paper before fading black into a cut away shot)
Good work. You show a clear grasp of your social types which you identify in Your Pinterest (4 pins with very brief captions). You have explored the backstory to your protagonists and show how you have conducted interviews to 'hot seat' them. You have devised creative ways to develop your characters and experimented with video interviews which you present here.
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