Eval Q2 Representations tbc

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

CAST/CHARACTERS SUMMARY

Cinematographer/Director: George Holmes, Jake Wilson

Curtis - 'Peter'                       

Reasons for:

- Young

- Good actor for an important role

The Killer character is inspired by Halloweens Michael Myers, as he represents a psychopathic patient and also he influenced our choice of weapon, the classic kitchen knife
Jake - Dr. Cruger

Reasons for:

- Looks like a doctor

- Reasonable actor for important role

- looks smart

The Dr character (me) represented the archetype that is Dr Loomis from Halloween, basically the Dr of the psychopathic patient.

Heather- Dr's Wife (scream queen)

- Blonde

- Takes drama for an AS level

Heather Represented the stereotypical scream queen, which is just like the archetype Janet Leigh off of the slasher psycho


My Vodcast on representations

The Killer

Michael Myers

Peter is a mental asylum patient who has escaped from the Asylum in which the doctor works. He then comes back to kill his doctor and his wife in his own home. Peter wears a lab coat stolen from the asylum and wears this throughout our opening for the effect and it looks good. influenced by the slasher film Halloween and the patient and the main killer in the film Michael Myers who has also escaped from a mental asylum.

Dr Loomis 

The Dr
The Dr is also very influenced by Halloween and Dr Loomis. He is a Dr at the mental asylum who looked after Peter. He made peters life hell inside the asylum, then killed by Peter himself. Dr Loomis was also Michaels Dr, getting killed in the process just like our Halloween inspired film.

Heather

Janet Leigh

Heather is the Scream queen in our film. Like your stereotypical scream queen she wore very little clothes, also revealing clothes, shes blonde and most importantly in our film opening she is sexually active as there is a sex scene in our opening to show this. We had a scene in the opening in which the scream queen gets killed, this was very much inspired by psycho as the same blonde scream gets killed in the bathroom. Our character heather was very much inspired by the psycho scream queen as she is blonde and sexually active. The bathroom being even more so.

Location

High Royds West Yorkshire

All of our characters are from north of england, which isn't popular and very weird for Americans as most British films are set down south of england. Therefore our audience may not be in america. However The slasher genre is a very unique genre as people don't seem to care as much about what country/county it is set in they just like the gore and the thrill they seem to get from watching it! So that's why were not overly bothered about where the film was set as long as the locations were good, we felt it could appeal to any audience.

Never- the-less if a big budget was given to us, america or southern England would probably be where we chose as more people recognize these actors and scenic locations.

Age
All our actors/actresses are teenagers aged from 16 - 17. However we wanted the audience to feel like the Dr and his girlfriend were older in their late 20's, this was to appeal to a larger audience yet still appeal to the older audience. 

Costume/Clothes

Dr

Here we have a shot from in the cupboard it shows the costume of the Dr. As he is a Dr it is a smart uniform he is wearing, i chose chino trousers and a smart shirt buttoned up as this is what was in our mind as a stereotypical Dr from first hand experience and from watching television. To add to the costume we used my Driving license as an identity for the Dr, as we thought it would add to the stereotypical look.

HeatherHere we have the bottom half of what our scream queen was wearing, we asked her to wear shorts as this shows a lot of skin especially with the top she was wearing as well. This was used as it is very stereotypical of the scream queen archetype to be blonde and wear revealing clothes.


The killer

This is the killer running from the Asylum. The killers costume, is inspired by the patients escape. He is wearing the Dr's lab coat and was the reason he was able to escape by disguise. We went to the schools biology department and they let us borrow the lab coat, this worked very effectively