AS Level Media Foundation Production Evaluation Q2

Q2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

 

Similarities

·         They are both killing because of religion.

·         They both wear black hooded robes.

·         They both are set in there ways to get what they desire

 

Differences

·         The man out of The Da Vinci Code kills people with a gun, whereas our character kills people by ‘a touch’

·         Our character never shows his face to the audience but the character out of The Da Vinci Code his face is seen immediately

 

The roll we wish the priest like character to represent is the villain. We feel the audience decides his age, as he looks exactly the same in the past and present. He is more of a never ageing spirit rather then a real person. The gender is a man through the title ‘Father’ and the fact the actor was a man; we did this because in the time that it was set men were seen to be ‘superior’. The character is mostly like a shadow where you don’t see much of him and it’s mostly a black outline, the only feature if him we see is his chin and lower face. The costume that we used was a hooded robe because it despised the person in the robe. The location we filmed him in would be the only location he would be in throughout the whole film. He was always in the shadows and we filmed him in low light because he was an evil, dark character.

Although it’s quite hard to see, the priest out of FOS and the character in The Da Vinci Code look and seem to be very similar. They are in a very same situation. The appearance of them seems to be similar. The only factor I can point out is that we can slightly see the villain from the DVC whereas on our thriller opening, we see nothing but his/her hand. In regards of the role of each of the characters, they are both playing the same sort of role. They are both having a chase. They are both either looking for someone or picking on a victim

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We thought that because of the massive similarities from the Da Vinci Code, our priest would be the fantastic match for this character. The priest/demon on the Da Vinci Code has a very violent way in getting what he wants where as our priest uses secrecy to kill. Our character obviously doesn’t want anyone to see his face and the demon in the DVC obviously has a little less to hide. Obviously giving more questions for the audience to ask