Evaluation - Question 2

Evaluation - Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Within our final piece we had four actors, the four actors were myself, Emily Rawles, Tommy Brading and Brooke Spencer. So we as a group also took the role of the actors which worked out for us very well. When deciding who would play what role, we decided that Emily would play the main role of the "Woman In White", Tommy would take the role of the killer, Brooke would take the role as the sister of the bride, also the killers romantic partner and I would take the role of the groom. We chose to use our group members as the actors as we were all confident that we could create a good final piece using our own performances, we also chose to use our own group members because that way we didn't have to rely on other people as a group to be in on the day of filming or have the correct costume.

We decided Emily would play the part of the "Woman In White" as she was less camera shy than our other female member Brooke, she had also had experience with acting as she had taken a GCSE drama course which meant she had some experience in acting and she did deliver a professional performance for our final piece which was key in helping us conform to the conventions of a "Gothic Horror" film.

We decided that Tommy would play the role of the killer within our final piece, and the main reason for this decision was that Tommy is a very confident person who wouldn't freeze up and hesitate in front of a camera. This meant that he would have been able to give a good performance without being troubled and camera shy during filming.


As a group, we decided to have Brooke play the role of the brides sister and the killers romantic partner. We made this decision because Brooke had also taken a GCSE drama course so also had experience with acting but didn't like the idea of taking the main role in the final piece as she was a little camera shy, therefore we decided to give her this role because it she would be able to use her drama skills without having the pressure of the main role.

As a group we decided that I would play the part of the groom within the final piece as I was the least confident member of the group with acting, also I was the most confident with using the technology to film the scenes and organizing each of the scenes to make sure they were done correctly. Therefore I took this role as it was the least seen character and still gave me a chance to feature in the film.

We were inspired to create our final piece due to a current and popular film named "The Woman In Black". Most members of our group had seen this film and we all agreed that it was a great film which represented "Gothic Horror" successfully. Also to us it seemed easily achievable to create a film that came from the inspiration from the idea of "The Woman In Black". This is also where the inspiration of our film name "The Woman In White" came from. Also some of our storyline was inspired from this film and the factor that inspired us was the use of someone from the afterlife haunting another character. This is why our storyline consisted of Emily being killed and then coming back from the dead to haunt Tommy and Brooke for revenge.

We were also inspired by another film we looked at in depth called "The Conjuring". During our film just before the title sequence there is a small photo collage section and then a photo of me and Emily (the bride and the groom) which turns from normal to distorted and scratched. We were inspired to do this because "The Conjuring's" title sequence is a series of photos and newspaper articles from the past which gave some backstory to the film, so we thought that in our clip, we would add photos of Brooke and Tommy as a couple so the viewers would be clear on there relationship and also the photo of me and Emily as it was a nice touch and helped us conform to our conventions as it showed the "Horror" and "Afterlife" side of our film. This film was also what inspired us to use the "old" and "grainy" effect on the beginning of our title sequence and photo of me and Emily as it looked more effective and professional than black and white to show the scene was in the past.

Our character "The Woman In White" was similarly based on the ghost from "The Woman In Black" however we did make some changes to make it our own idea. For example the character of "The Woman In Black" is a older aged mother who lost her kids due to them walking out a window. Then her son was also killed so her spirit haunts this abandoned house waiting to somehow get piece and claim a new child to call her own. The character we created, the "Woman In White" is a woman and sister who was killed on the day of her wedding just before the ceremony and then she comes back from the dead to get revenge on the killer. so they are both similar but different and one of the main differences is "The Woman In Black" wears all black, and our character, "The Woman In White" wears all white. This is the only character that we had been inspired to create but it worked successfully and we are proud with the way the character turned out.

Our characters in "The Woman In White" do match some stereotypes of a common "Gothic Horror" film. For example, typically men would be more likely to watch this film and this is because the main protagonist is female. Therefore  it would appeal more to men as a woman would typically be on the screen almost all the time and this would also use the theory of "The male gaze" to its advantage. Stereotypically gothic people and also horror fans are the main groups of people that would watch this type of movie, however we have altered our film and added modern touches, similar to "The Woman In Black" to gain more of an audience and reach out to more people in other groups as well as common "Gothic Horror" fans.