Help Sheet: Q2 and Q3 Evaluation Tasks

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Pick the key character(s) from your opening. Take a screengrab of a reasonable sized image of them. Think of one or
more characters from other real films with some similarity to them (but maybe some differences too!), find an
image on the web of that/those characters and grab it as well. In your evaluation write about the similarities and
differences in terms of appearance, costume, role in film etc.
So for example if you have a lone cop type character, look for other lone cops to compare him with...
You might consider how you have represented one or more of the following: gender, age, role (hero / villain / victim,
etc), status, class, ethnicity, etc.
Only choose representations that are relevant!
You should write about how you used the following to create a representation of each social group. Remember to
discuss the ideas you wished to convey about that particular group.
For each representation:

The role you wished to represent hero, victim, girlfriend, etc

How / why you used age and gender for that role.
How you use the characters appearance?
Costume selected and reasons for this?
Camera shot use and meanings this conveyed?
Props used by the character and their significance?
Make up?
Location you filmed the character in?
Lighting?

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
You could either do a voice over directors commentary over your opening or use a series of images / words (a
prezi?) to show this evidence.
You should:

Discuss your production company name and logo and the role of such companies why did you choose it?
What professional production logos did you draw inspiration from?

Explain what a production company does. (consider thriller genre / film distributors)

Select a distributor - who that might be and why. (consider thriller genre / film distributors) Outline the
organisation location, ownership, structure (owned by larger media company?) Summarise the films /
genres they are involved in. Explain why they are an appropriate institution to produce / distribute your film

Where the money might have come from to fund for a film such as yours

Why the various people are named in the titles - which jobs appear in titles and in what order and how have
you reflected this?

What your film is similar to 'institutionally' (name some films which would be released in a similar way)You
need to refer to actual company names and processes so you will need to go back to the early posts on film
companies and maybe do a bit more research