My Evaluation

Please note that in this Video Evaluation I mentioned the thrase "Jibber jabber" reffering to a famous saying in a 80's TV series by that I mean that the language that my actors were speaking wern't actually russian they were trying to replicate russian by using a similar accent and similar form of words.


 How does my media production represent particular social groups?

In my opening I have a few different social groups

• Ultra nationalists
• Hostages
• soldiers

Each group I have represented by the clothing and acting that the my actors have done I used clothing such as Balaclavas and toy guns to give the audience the idea of a villain then using my prologue to state they are Ultra Nationalists they act like bad guys by there use of body language and voice also them torturing the hostage (slapping him) They represent Ultra Nationalists/ Terrorists well as they establish that they are after money "a ransom" for a hostage, they are armed and they are speaking a foreign language. this creates your stereotypical Ultra Nationalist and they present that well to the audience.

  Hostages are my other main social group that I have in my opening and I present him as a tied up, taped mouth and tortured person. an audience will instantly recognise him as a hostage as he is very well represented as a hostage because he is tied up and tortured. also fear is shown in some of my shots such as my high angled point of view before he gets hit and he represents a pretty good hostage.

  My last socail group is soldiers, although there is only a brief shot of my sniper you do get a presence of professionalism from it as he is hiding in camouflage and is scanning the building for threats so he presents himself as a professional type of soldier and that is all you get out of his shot.

Socail Groups are the differant types of groups that media products try to represent or compare with to give the audience a better understanding of that socail group or identify key charicters as part of that group.

What have I learned about the technologies from process of constructing this product?

When i first started this project I knew nothing about the technologies such as Photoshop, The vedio camera and Apple Mac software so from nothing to nearly everything you need to know how to produce a good quality media production I have learned alot. Mostly I have learned alot about photo and video editing software as I knew the basics behind filming a video and could get good footage but editing was a new step for me.  Using the Apple Mac computers was hard as I knew they were differant to ordinary computers and I struggled to ajust to a Macs systems as it is almost completely differant ot a computer. I enjoyed editing more than the filming as it let you alter everything about your footage from specail effects to lighting and contrast aswell as audio editing and adding music and sound effects to your movie.

Over all I have learned alot about the technologies used in the film industry and I have to say I enjoyed making my Opening.