Deniz Osman AS Media

Q2) How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
In the two tasks we had two completely different characters in, as the Mise en scene and time periods was different.
In the preliminary task entitled Rumour produced a continuity task called ‘Torment’ where we had a young pretty girl one can guess she belonged from the high class as she was really classy and a from her clothing and jewellery. We depicted her as innocent and wealthy but was black mailed by a man. The male character we had was portrayed as belonging to the Italian mafia. The suit and the hat were used to reinforce this. Also him smoking a cigarette and his conversation showed how relaxed and dominant he is, but in the last 10 seconds of the clip the female character challenges this convention where the reverse roles and take a more dominant and masculine role.
In the second product we produced which was ‘Rumour’ we had two female teenager characters, who are shown clearly by the way they talk and by the plan they had. It represents teenagers as people that look at the funny side of life and that they don not take in consider the part that of life which is not good, and that there are bad things which can happen to you. Teenagers today seem careless when looked at the media and people around us so we wanted to show this in our film.

Lastly the music I chose was not a copyright file which was really scary, it had silent sections which created more tension which is a thriller conventions. There was cries and yells in the sound track as well which is similar to the diegetic sounds we recorded. We are going to use a combination of non diegetic and diegetic sounds which would crate more tension as the real screams and crying for help would be more effective on the audience.
The language we chose was more like a street talk as they were talking in between them. Teenagers today talk in a different way when compared with the way they talk at home or in school. We wanted to make this clear in our Rumour production. Also the costume they had on was appealed to the young audience as, teenagers wear tracksuits like the two girls in Rumour. The editing I used was black outs so that I showed the point of views of both the girls and the mysterious character, I chose this way to show that they were being spied on. Also the colour black has connotation with death and danger which can link back to the girls being in risk and dying.

The choice of locations and the trick that the characters play reinforce the stereotype of careless teenagers naïve and burning for adventure with very little maturity we reflected this concept through the props but also through the narrative of our production.