EVALUATION QUESTION 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media film presents Meabh as a possible witch, in that we leave the audience guessing whether or not Meabh is a witch and what has happened to her. Meabh is clearly a young female that has been discriminated against in society. Females of the same age group may be able to relate to the way Meabh is feeling, as she was clearly an outsider in society and has been branded as 'different' and this has resulted in her being drowned. Isolation is something that thousands of young adults struggle with, and therefore can relate to Meabh's emotions. The audience may also feel sympathy for Meabh, especially when they realise how confused meabh is, being thrown into this time zone with no recollection of what has happened. Meabh is clearly full of fear, and this becomes apparent when she sees the lorry driving across the bridge, as well as the use of camera shots and sound when meabh discovers the home she had grown up in several centuries ago is now in ruins. Meabh is evidently extremely traumatised and this forces a reaction from the audience, as they would pity meabh, a young girl being thrown into the unknown, a feeling which many may relate to.

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1. COSTUME 

Meabh wore a plain white dress, one that we hoped looked like a night dress, as though she had been taken suddenly in the night. The thin material and plain design give the impression that Meabh does not come from a wealthy background, as someone who is wealthy would be wearing a dress with a much more intricate design and detailing. In the 1700s, clothing is something that set the wealthy apart from the poor. The wealthy would wear thick fabrics, rich colours and intricate designs, whereas the less wealthy would wear very basic pieces, such as the dress Meabh can be seen wearing in our movie. Since costume is such a large part of our film, our movie may appeal to those who have an interest in the costumes and culture of the 1700s.  

                                                     

   

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

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

BELOW IS A LINK TO THE PREZZI I MADE ANSWERING THIS QUESTON -



https://prezi.com/view/6aVzjjSM2LIvcQPFTQc5/

TITLES AND FONTS

POSSIBLE FONT IDEAS 

For our titles, we had several options but narrowed it down to the following -

We then decided that we wanted to use a font that reflected the time that Meabh lived in. Set in Ireland, we were looking for a Celtic style of font. 

We went with this "Irish Uncial" Font.

We took inspiration from other films we have previously analysed such as; 

The Blair Witch Project...

The Witch...

The Ring...

All these titles are in a more sinister font, against a dark background with the writing contrasting against it. Both The Witch and The Blair Witch Project titles are against a forest background, which is similar to the way we plan on presenting our title in our film.  

COSTUME AND MAKEUP - EVALUATION

Make-up

Make-up and costume is something that was very important in our movie and essential that we got right. I was in charge of make up and costume and wanted to create the appearance of bruising, dirt and very gaunt features.

I used browns, purples, blues, greys and blacks to create meabhs  makeup. I focused the dark blacks in the contours of meabhs face, the purples, blues and greys around her eyes and the greys, blacks and browns round the perimeter of her face and roughly all over to create a more dirty complexion. 

Dark contours to create shadows for the appearance of sunken  features. 

Me doing Meabh's makeup.

Created bruising on meabhs hands and wrists using purple and black shadows.

COSTUME

I began with an old white dress that Anna had lying around the house. I began by  ripping the neckline and sleeves, to give a more rugged and worn look. I also added ladders in some places and frayed the hems. I then took the dress outside and covered it in mud by dropping it into a muddy puddle and stamping on it with muddy shoes where i wanted the mud to be more intense. I was constantly changing the position of the dress in the puddle to create a more uneven effect as this would make it look a lot more realistic. 

MUSIC

Originally, we wanted to have Anna compose the music for our film herself, however we decided this would be unrealistic as we didn't really have enough time and made the decision to focus on getting the rest of the movie perfect, and finding a royalty-free track just as good online.

For the beginning of our movie we wanted something serene, a track that would work alongside the slow water scenes and would contrast to the action that is yet to unfold. We trailed and tested several different tracks before settling with "Waterways". There was something off with every track we tried, however we weren't entirely happy with how it sounded paired with the shots. Here are a few songs that we tested;







And this is the track we decided to go with;

KALOPSIA

KALOPSIA PRODUCTIONS 

DEFINITION -a condition, state or delusion in which things appear more beautiful than they really are. As a combination of the Greek roots kallos, meaning beauty, and opsis, meaning sight (or opos, meaning eyes), in English kalopsia can also mean beautiful sight or with beautiful eyes.

These are three designs that we were considering using in our production company logo. We decided to use a black and white eye to symbolise how things can appear more beautiful than they are. However, we decided to go for something slightly different as we preferred the overall look of this logo better and felt it looked slightly more professional. Our logo can be seen here;

FILMING IN NEWCASTLE

LOCATION ONE - THE FOREST

We chose to use this derelict cottage as our first location, this would be
the house that our actress Meabh had grown up in.

The day we filmed was freezing cold and at times raining.

I did Meabhs makeup, adding dark shadows to the  eyes and cheekbones to make her face appear gaunt, browns and blacks to look like dirt, and purple, blue and grey shades to create a bruised effect. 

We had to walk up a long path to find the cottage.

LOCATION TWO - BLOODY BRIDGE

Meabh in the water getting one of our opening shots. 

Getting the underwater shots.

Filming some scenery shots.