Forgotten final cut

This is the final cut of our opening sequence. It is an improved version of our rough cut. In order to improve it we took into account the feedback we got and reshot and recreated some titles.

Hanah Eltaher: Evaluation: Question 7

Hanah Eltaher: Evaluation: Question 6:

Hanah Eltaher: Evaluation: Question 4:

Our opening sequence would work well for our target audience because the main character is an Asian Muslim teen-aged girl meaning that the target audience can relate to the character,our target audience is 16-22 years old, makes the opening more thrilling for them because this means that they can relate to the character, and feel sympathy. 

Hanah Eltaher: Evaluation: Question 5

Mise en scene

Using an unconventional character, the protagonist is an Asian Muslim, which isn’t very frequent in the thriller films, this would immediately grab attention 

 We incorporated the dreams to create a sense of confusion; this puts the audience in the character’s position making them feel the same events as the character.

Narrative

The story-line is based similarly on Memento, but it’s more appealing to female viewers rather than male viewers, it also needs more thought to be understand

Camera 

Throughout the opening sequence there are traces of clues, foreshadowing later events in the story

We have many close-ups to give viewers a clear idea on what is happening, not to disorientate the viewers.
Use of mid shot, allowed the audience to see the hand gestures of the girl in the dreams, this allows the audience to relate to it.

Editing
In our sequence we added the fade to white, to make the audience understand that its a series of dreams, rather than just flashbacks.

                                                                                        

Hanah Eltaher: Evaluation: Question 3

3:   What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• Our opening is fairly niche and compact, it only applies to a minority of the population therefore, I think an independent distribution company such as Intandem Disruption Company.
• The narrative of our film is complex as it involves a process, and the audience have to pick up various hints from the opening sequence to understood the story line. 
• Our use of an untypical protagonist makes our film easier to distribute  with an independent company because it's more compact and doesn't apply to the whole population.  
• A film from Intandem Disruption company: Incubus - Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.

• This is a smaller company which is more likely to distribute it to smaller theatres, and from there it can start to gain it’s credit and appear in cinema’s.

Hanah Eltaher: Evaluation: Question 2

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

We feel like we have represented a niche audience, an Islamic Asian teenager social group

• The young Muslim character 'Noor' is the protagonist of our film  
• This is representation of them, is stereotypical  suggesting that perhaps young Muslim teenage girls are suppressed and feel the need to rebel. However it goes against the traditions of the religious views, which makes the narrative seem anti-stereotypical. 
• We created this image of the protagonist  to challenge the audience's usual 'thriller film' experience, it challenged the conventions as in most thriller films, older white males are the lead characters. 

Muslim women in general are out cased from the 'media' and aren't given a specific role in any leading thriller films. This video is the main reason, as to why I felt that our main character should be untypical of a thriller film.