Evaluation - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We, as a group, chose to do different types of stereotypes, which is clear from the beginning, where we have used our mise en scene, and has took four different types of teenagers, and became it. Our make-up and costume suits with our stereotype, and our different social groups. we have the Goth, which is dressed in black, with heavy make-up. The nerd, which is dressed in tucked in clothes, glasses and books. The Chav, which is dressed in loose clothes, hair up to the side and is shown to be a rebel, by taking some guys hat, and runs away with it. And the Posh Totty, dressed nicely, short everything, with the flirty quality.
I think that having the right costume, make-up and props are a necessary towards describing what social groups they are in. By this, we can then locate what type of social group, or stereotype they are under. 
Through-out the film, it is shown how the mise en scene, points out what type of group they both fit in, but it is both realized at the end that they are friends. 

Evaluation - How does your media product represent gender?

Our product represents gender by using different stereotypes, which both represents different emotions and qualities for each girl in our group. And with our main four characters, all being girls, and the editing techniques done with pink text, and pink colours, shows that its a feminism colour and a connotation of girly.

Also, we have represented gender by producing a chick-flick, with the costumes meeting the stereotype standard, with; Goth, Nerd, Chav and Posh totty. 

 with the Opening credits, shows the connotation of the girl element, with the text and how it has been edited onto the sketchbook/diary.  This techniques goes through the whole 2 minutes, by introducing the characters, both with the same kind of colour, relating to the gender of the four main characters. 

certification

The certificate for the film will be 12A because of our genre and target audience age we don't need the certificate to be any higher. Most chick flicks like 'Wild Child' and 'John Tucker Must Die' are both 12A's. Films that are genre's like action and horror have older target audiences so we would like all of the people we aim our film at to be able to watch it. By the certificate being so low it also means that more people in general will be able to enjoy the film.


-Written by Jade delaney
-Decided and thought about by the Whole Group

Our preliminary footage

Our final Piece!

Opening Scene: the book opening

For the first seconds of our opening, we are going to have an over the shoulder shot of a girl, preferably jade, so it suits the voice overs when we start to film, going  through a A3 black and pink sketch book with images of the main characters and the opening credits. Much like the opening for St Trinians but it will not be animation. In these pictures, we have asked a model to sit holding an A3 sketch book which is the same size, shape and colour as the one we shall be using. This experiments the different angles we can shoot in, and which one has the greatest effect, and suits the film.
So we filmed the model flicking the pages, and next i will show you how we did. 

Sound and Music - Suchy la

For our film opening, my group and I need a up-beat and light song- ideally a British artist with female vocals. Our group are also considering having a narrator speaking over the music about 30 seconds in to the opening. After our opening credits (scrap book scene).
This is suchy LA, a British artist, known for her song, Addicted. This song will be played in the 2 minute clips.
She was Born & raised in Bristol, UK, Suchy La has grown up in a city known for its diverse culture and vibrant music scene, home to groups such as Massive Attack, Roni Size,as well as a huge underground dance scene.
her Myspace account is:
http://www.myspace.com/suchyla