EVALUATION

How does your media product represent social groups?


The social groups we used were men and women, both middle aged and in the middle class. The dominant racial representations were white European citizens.
In the church sequence we displayed a white catholic nun and a vicar, the clothing is stereotypical of church folk and this would stereotypically make them middle class. As there is music accompanying the film, you do not hear them speak and so we have no conception of the tone of their voice, however the nun playing piano is meant to symbolise her singing a well, so this could insinuate a fairly well off tone, usually associated with the middle class.
In the montage sequence, especially in the basement we are shown photographs of the main antagonist and protagonist, in what we believe to be their home. From their general appearance we can gather that they are well dressed. We do not find much out throughout the sequence about the characters and so there is not much we can gather from them.
We have created the dominant stereotype of women in our horror, of them being the antagonist, and the male being the main protagonist.



Institutions

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

How would you typify your media product: mainstream/blockbuster….independent low budget/mid budget/high end budget?

I would try and typify my media product as a low budget mainstream product. Low budget was the most preferable as we hadn’t much in the way of budget. Having said that the end effect came out very well and doesn’t look that low budget, except in the case of the nativity set. The cast and locations were easily accessible and so that did not cause an issue and they also look very professional.


How would you change your media product into a different category?

To change my media film into a bigger budget and more mainstream category, I would need to get sponsors from know big brands and known studios and companies willing to supply money. Like Film Four, National Lottery and a few others Big, named actors would also add to popularity and also increase box office takings, like Megan fox in the role of the woman and Johnny depp in the role of the husband.