Evaluation Activity 2

Evaluation Activity 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I think that our film opening successfully meets the needs of a target audience who want to see a horror and a thriller at the same time, if they are looking for a thrill then this is the film for them, but if they are looking for a horror film with lots of blood and gore then this is not the film for them, as this is more of a psychological thriller than a brutal gore film.

This is our character here on the top, John Whitlock, in our film opening of Chapel Lane. On the bottom there is the character of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille in the film Perfume. I picked this character because he is one of the characters we used in our research to base our characters on. I think John and Jean have a lot of similarities between them such as:

- They both have a menacing characteristic about them that drives them to get what they want.

- They both have an obsession with women that makes them commit terrible crimes.

- Their characters are both set in an old fashioned era, so the crimes they committed were more unheard of in those days.

-They both have short brown hair and brown eyes.

- Both of their costumes are very similar as they are from and old fashioned era and their costumes really sets the time period and makes it really clear to the viewer.

- Their roles in the films are similar as they are the main character that the audience follow and both have women and the side characters.

-They both have a ‘Jack the Ripper’ feel to them with a man stalking women.

Differences:

-The reasons that they are stalking women are different Jean wants to capture the women’s sent and John just has an obsession with women’s figures and personas.

-They are from two different classes, John is from a higher class which you can see from his costumes of a top hat and suit and Jean is from a working class and has ragged works clothes which are dirty and torn.

- The places where the characters are from are different as Jean is French and John is English.

-Their accents are different, Jean talks with a lower uneducated accent and John has an upper class posh accent.