My main character in my production is wearing casual clothing this shows him to be a young character and allows our audience to connect with them because they are of a similar age. During the film the character is attacked and from the start the audience see him as a defenseless character this makes the audience sympathize with him. Equally when he wins the fight against the masked attacker the audience start to fill uplifted and start to rejoice, this also accepts the stereotype of teenagers being hostile and aggressive; especially boys. Then, at the end of the film when then character has his head in his hands the audience sympathize with his at his life changing event that a boy of his age should never be involved with, countertypeing the normal 'ladish' view where teenage boys are driven by testosterone and not by their feelings.
Some of the shots of the main character are high angle shot. This represents the character is weak, compared to some of the shots of the Masked Assailant that are low angle shots that show him in a position of power this again makes the audience feel sympathy for the character during this part of the film.
Similarly in films like “Scream” there are also teenagers escaping a murderous masked character; this stereotypical portrayal of teenagers being vulnerable in situations involving masked assailants.
Equally our Masked Assailant is a stereotype to other masked characters in Horror films like Scream, Texas Chainsaw, Michael Myers in Halloween and Jason Vorhees in Friday the 13th. Masked Assailants are also featured in thriller films like the
Masked Criminals in the Purge. In most of these films the masked character is middle aged, my attacker is not unmasked, mainly for mystery that would occur later in the film, but so the audience at this moment can decide for themselves what he is like.
Characters that wear masks wear masks to strike fear in to there person there attacking. The masks dehumanises them to strike more fear into the victim; this also strikes fear into the audience, which further develops the relationship with the protagonist. Also usually sociopathic or psychopathic I am representing my character to have these tendencies.
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"Polite Leader" in the Purge
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Our Masked Character |
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I also developed conventions used in other films when using techniques like the use of black and white in a colour production. A good example of this black and white in colour film would be the original Wizard Of OZ, where it only turns into colour film once Dorothy left Kansas. This was to signify to the audience that disequilibrium in the plot has occurred, because she now has the arduous task of getting home. In contrast to that we used the black and white as a memory of recent past event in my opening and colour to signify the present.
I also used forms of conventions from productions such as kill bill one, and two. Through the use of a black and white opening, this was further developed with the user parallel editing and cross cutting. This production challenged the conventions used in this particular Kill Bill as I chose not to use any character dialogue. The flashbacks were used and developed similarly to kill bill As the past events are all shot in black and white then present is in colour. The cross cutting and parallel editing was inspired by "silence of the lambs" and their effective use of cross cutting, which mislead the audience into thinking they new what would happen. Thus creating a plot twist which engaged their target audience even further.
From my title research I deduced that the best possible type of credits and titles was bold white impact with a fade in and fade out. My editor used these and got the "green light" from the focus group, it also follows the same effects as the titles from reservoir dogs, as they use bold font and a fade in transition.
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