Evaluation 2

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Top: FaceStalk (our film opening)
Left: I know what you did last summer: Feature length production
Right: Take This Lollipop: Short internet-based film

The main character in all three films are the ‘stalkers’ that are shown in the pictures above.
The character in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (IKWYDLS) had a key accessory, a hook, that added an edgy and scary look. However this hook conforms to conventions of a horror which our film is not. The IKWYDLS character is cloaked and does not expose any part of his body until the very end; this keeps the viewer suspicious and mysterious, and creates a great climax when we see his face towards the end. In contrast, the stalker from ‘Take This Lollipop’ (TTL) had his identity very exposed, but this allows the viewer to his facial expressions clearly - we decided to use a mix of these two inspirational films and have our stalker mostly covered with only his face showing. Our character’s role is somewhat similar to both the IKWYDLS’s stalker and TTL’s stalker in that previous knowledge of others in the film are found out and action is taken - all three of these stalkers confront their victims in some gruesome form.

The victim in our film is named Robyn Jones - a stereotypical teenage girl in England. The only time we see her in the finished film-opening is when the stalker is looking at pictures of her on Facebook. Her presence on Facebook also adds to her conformity to the ‘female youth’ social group.