EVALUATION

How does your media product represent certain social groups? (Textual analysis)

The clip begins with a main menu screen from high up, as a bird’s eye view shot of the ground. You see red paint splat against the wall which is the background, you hear the splat sound, representing death and also the colour of the splat on the wall is red which symbolises horror and violence.

Once the play button is pressed it fades to our promo clip, giving the audience the name of my group which is Supernova, this name was chosen because the sun is full of energy and so is our group,giving lots of new ideas etc.

We hear dark, sinister music, showing us the clip is going to start, ask the music gets louder and start to build tension it cuts instantly to an extreme close-up of the actor’s eye. The camera then slowly tracks out revealing the characters body, he is led on the floor just waking up, and the character looks baffled symbolising he may have been in danger previously, this represents the male being dominated and feeling weak, this could be seen as a modern view of men. The character then gets up scratches his head in amazement of how confused he is and starts to walk out of the scene. The camera changes into a high shot; the camera has a green effect to make it look like a CCTV camera, showing the audience he may be being watched, hinting to them the genre of the movie which is horror, again this is showing the audience that the male is being dominated and feeling powerless.

Next we see a close-up of the character looking into the mirror, he turns on the tap and washes his face, and the sound of the water running is synchronous. He washes his face and we hear more sinister sounds, as if there’s something/someone in the room with him. The camera tracks in to his face, and we see bugs crawl up the characters face, the character is looking scared which is a modern view of men because traditionally men would be seen as masculine and "fearless". This atmosphere in the clip at the moment again is representing horror.

As the previous scene fades, it goes into the next scene. Here the character is walking out of the bathroom and back into the living room (location of first scene) the camera deliberately goes fuzzy implying that he’s feeling drowsy, this could be due to the bugs, they may have had an effect on them, and the music during this is quite sinister and creates the horror atmosphere.

The character then drops and passes out, this leaves the audience think the bugs have killed him. There is a close up of his arm, the camera slowly drifts up his arms, and then again but up his leg. We next see the characters face, the music is tense at this point and then this is when the character wakes up and screams, with a horrific face, leaving the audience quite scared. The clip then goes black and we think it’s over but then we hear a synchronous door bell sound and the character wakes up as if it was all a dream and heads down stairs..