script for 2nd question

Script for video

 

The different social groups within this opening sequence consist of the following the female character with her gender and how this is portrayed. As well as the police officer that is conveyed in the interview scenes, with the social group of his job occupation and how this is constructed in the opening sequence.  

 

Police officer:

 

Police officers are commonly portrayed to people as ‘save the day’, hero’s, able to confide in to, clever minded, always there to help and trustworthy. People such as the audience, have this stereotype of the police officers. For example, when looking at other films, such as ‘prisoners’ there is a police officer that is focussed on throughout the opening sequence. The name of the police officer is Detective Loki, this character is portrayed as ‘save the day’ and extremely clever minded throughout the film. This is an example, of how they are portrayed as well as how this character is shown throughout this specific film.

 

Unlike most police officers, the police officer that is focussed on within the opening sequence that I have created called ‘The Ritual’. The police officer that is focussed on throughout the crosscutting is named Mark Stevenson. Mark Stevenson, is a character that is completely different to how police officers are visualised in the stereotypical way to people. The police officer, throughout the opening sequence is portrayed as mischievous, devious, darkened, evil like and labelled as the antagonist. The reason why we wanted to portray the police officer in this form, was because we wanted to create a twist to the narrative of the opening sequence. By portraying the police officer like this, it makes the audience feel intrigued and nervous about what’s going to happen next.

 

Personally I think that constructing the police officer to be like this, was effective and a good idea towards the project. By the police officer acting in the way he did throughout the opening sequence, it made Mary Shaw the female character to look more vulnerable and innocent like. The idea of the police officer, being viewed like this is different to the stereotype and personally I think that it is more effective to make the audience feel uncomfortable and considering that the genre of the opening sequence is ‘thriller’ based.

We also focused on how the police man moved, we kept him quite still with very little movement so that he would come across as mysterious. His head was kept straight and he didn’t really move it. We he was speaking to Mary and was trying to comfort her he didn’t move in close to make her feel safe. If he didn’t move in to support her then it would of made him come across as nice and friendly what we didn’t want. His facial expressions mainly stayed the same and he didn’t give out any emotions. He could be described as ‘neutral’.

The lighting around the police man was really dark with low key lighting. However there is a light that is on the right of him. This light empathises his facial expressions and makes him come across as dark and ‘Evil like’. His dark clothes also highlights how he isn’t pure and nice as you can’t really make out what he is wearing as it is all black.

Girl

In most films the woman is stereotypically the innocent one. For example in the film  ‘I know who killed me’ the actress Lindsay Loan plays the protagonist who is chased by a killer. Within the film she is portrayed as innocent and defenceless. Most woman are presented weak and not strong so like most films we decided to carry on the stereotype of the way we present Mary.  

Mary is young which makes her come across as weak and venerable, we decided to use this and show her age through the use of hair and costume. We made her wear a white top which makes her come across as pure and innocent. Her hair is blond which communicates venerable. The she wore her clothes made her look sophisticated and mature. This allows the audience to see that she isn’t  a trouble maker, however it also makes her look weak. This helps to make the audience feel sympathy for her. As she seems to be an easy target.

Though the scene in the interview room Mary comes across as though she trust the police man as she is open to him as she tells him everything, as she trusts him. The fact that she is almost in tears allows the audience to see that she feels that she can break down in front of him as she is comfortable. The fact that she feels that she can trust him shows that she is In denial as she thinks she is safe.