CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION 1: How does your film opening represent social groups or issues?
- First identify the social groups featured and present them visually (eg in Pinterest). Roles and jobs?
- The focus is on how they are represented: stereotypes? anti-stereotypes? What are they like? Gender, status, age? Use any of the audience profile categories if relevant.
- Identify the issues in your film opening: recent 'issues' have included artificial intelligence, people smuggling, bullying, kidnapping, art theft, online fraud. How are they presented in your production?
- We feature a BBFC rating of 15, because the film portrays a masked killer, and it has a small amount of violence, and strong threat.
- The production company logo was designed by me, and the design was a dark theme, and with a little camera, displaying 'belvedere studios' on the front. In the actual film opening, it is rain, thunder and lightning behind it. This was made by me to represent horror, and darkness, to represent the type of film opening the genre will display.
- My film opens with a news report scene of two of my friends, behind a green screen reporting that a girl has been killed, which introduces us straight into the action, and drama, to set the scene.
- Just after, the mis ene scene represents darkness in front of a house, with a masked killer holding a knife, which shows horror and darkness to introduce us to the killer.
- The murder/protagonist is the first main character to appear in the opening. He is easily identified as the protagonist by his formal wearing, mask, and knife, which is a typical convention of a murder.
- The credits appear for the actors when they make their appearance in the film, so the credits come at different times
- The main soundtrack consists of scary, dramatic music, that slowly builds up to the jump scare of the girl being killed. This creates tension and makes the audience want to watch it for longer.
- The film title, which happens at the end, is in a formal font to represent how the murder does his actions, in a very discrete way, with blood flowing over the title to represent murder and darkness.
