Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

For our film we use many different social groups that we have presented in a stereotypical way.

The first social group which we portrayed was young teens. 

Stereotypically teens are seen as being lazy and moody people who are unemployed and aggressive. In our film however we decided to challenge this stereotype and make our main protagonist; who is a teenager seem naive and hard-working a sin our film opening she is doing a paper round something which is anti-stereotypically of people the same age.

The next social group that we looked into was middle aged men and women.

Within crime-dramas middle-aged people stereotypically play the antagonist (villain). Middle aged people are also stereotypically boring, uncool, unattractive and often seen as being dominant over others. In our film we tried to stick to this stereotype and made our hooded figure seem to have the characteristics of a stereotypical antagonist of a crime-drama.

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

Final Film Opening

This is our final copy of our film opening, we have recreated our ident and added sound to our entire film. We have also added multiple video transactions, to make it a continuous.

2nd Rough Cut

Here is the 2nd version of our rough cut

Rough Cut

This is our rough cut. So far we have edited all of our current available footage and we have started to add titles and sound.

Risk Assesment

Before we start filming we need to do a risk assessment so that when filming our different scenes we are aware of the risks and we have thought about how we can try to prevent certain situations from happening. We did this so we could prepare the actors and so us our self's for the dangers that we come across when filming our opening sequence.

Choosing a title for our film opening

When making our film opening we went through what we were going to name our opening sequence. After deciding that we would make a crime-drama film opening we decided that it would fit best if we made the title of this opening sequence one word this adds to the effect that the genre gives. From here we then went through what we could call. First off, we came up with the idea to call it:

• The Missing 
• Vanished
• Unknown 

From here we decided that none of these worked then we decided to name it Genette. We decided on this name because it links to our film opening; it being based on the disappearance of Genette Tate. It also was one word which made it short and more engaging. As well as this we thought that Genette as a title worked well within the type of film genere.