Question Two

'' How Does Our Media Product Represent Particular Social Group ? '' 

The main social group our media product represents is teenage girls aged 15+. I believe our opening shows this by the following aspects;

- Our character Hanifah is in her bedroom on her laptop. 

This is typical for most teenagers, sitting in their rooms chatting to their friends etc (not necessarily girls). 

- The clothes/costume. 

Most teenage girls tend to wear their pyjama's when their at home. Being a girl myself I can say it is more comftable and relaxing to wear this type of clothing. 

We chose to have our main character in this type of clothing as we find it more realistic then wearing jeans and a hoodie at home. 

We had no trouble choosing the costume for our character to wear.

- Mise en scene/make-up 

This point is obvious.. As we ALL know girls love their make up!!

There's no doubt. Therefore we decided to have a shot of her putting any sort of make-up on, to clearly represent the social group. 

Now we had a mid-shot/over shoulder shot of her mirror reflection putting on red lipstick. ( although you couldn't notice the colour, as we added the effect black and white )

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A ) Here I compared the Character from 'What Lies Beneath' with one shot of our opening. 

Similarities; - They are anxious about something they either see or hear. Both shots include stairs.

Differences; - The clothing; Our character is wearing pyjamas whereas the other character is wearing a dressing robe. Another difference is the fact 'What Lies Beneath' is showing the character going up the stairs, while Hanifah is going down the stairs.

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B) Although this comparison is nothing to do with characters, I thought it was important to discuss the shots. 

It was a great similarity as they both included a smooth panning shot of the Mise en Scene.
( I couldn't upload the video of showing this )

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D) You can clearly notice the similarity and differences between these two shots. 
Our Character Is Shown From Behind Opening The Door.
Whereas The Other Character Is Shown From The Opposite End Opening The Door. 

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A mid-shot of her reaction

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A close up of her reaction

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   F) Finally this is the last shots I will be comparing.

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                      F) In both openings we have a smooth/slow zoom, on the 'Point' each character is looking/react to; 

What Lies Beneath; the bath room, the bath filling up, steam.

The Return (Our thriller); The memorial paper, the wind blowing to show some suspense effect.

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