Evaluation Questions 1 and 2

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

- Our clip is of a horror genre which has a gripping feel to it as it displays a group of students and their fear of a particular teacher who is shown to be psychotic in the clip. It ends with a cliffhanger stating that there is more to come and the teacher will play a key role in the remainder of the movie. Many if not all horror movies have a suspensful and horrifying opening which makes the audience intrigued and wanting to see more of the movie. In behind the scenes footage, horror movies often show how they create a dark and scary effect and how they make fake blood if a character is killed off, we could also have added something like this at the end of sequence to show how we chose to make the movie look like a typical horror. We challenged the typical horror setting of at night as our scene is in daylight, this is done for it to look realistsic as it is meant to be a detention which is straight after school. We had the psychotic teacher close the blinds during the clip to show how he is evil and also to try and make the sequence slighly typical of a horror movie too. A dark setting is typical of a horror movie as this makes a creepy and scary atmosphere from which audiences can predict that something bad will happen. Despite our clip taking place during the day we added in the blinds and lights being shut during the sequence. This makes our clip challenge the horror genre as it is done during the day since most detentions don't take place at night.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

- Social groups can be made up of race, age, class, gender, etc. Our media product represents a two specific social groups, one is the 2 friends who go to detention together and are portrayed as scared and cautious beforehand of the whole scenario as one of them points out how the lights in the hallway are off. The other social group was of the other student in detention who was portrayed as a careless, arrogant, and rude teenager who stands up to the teacher and in a result he is attacked and believed to be dead. These are two social groups which are seen as stereotypical as they are displayed in almost every horror movie. In movies as such, the careless and arrogant type of characters usually end up dead and the scared and cautious character often survives or gets killed in a surprise twist. Our clip does well to portray these social groups as both types are in the detention with the careless type playing its typical role when the student is constantly on his phone and even puts his feet up on the desk whilst the other social group sits quietly and does as told.