Final Cut - Underground

Evaluation Question 2

How does you media product represent particular social groups?

Scream King from Undeground

There are only 2 characters revealed in our film opening the killer and the Scream King.
Each character represents different social group; the scream king represents the younger generation and has been dressed up and made to act like how an older generation would think of us or stereotype us as "thugs". 


The killer is made to look like a sinister being and has similarities with other killers such as the killer in the horror film series "Scream", Ghostface. Our killer wears similar clothes such as dark clothing with a hood, although our killer wears a hoodie and dark jeans. Both killers also wear dark boots. 

An image of the killer in Scream "Ghostface"

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Evaluation Question 1

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

FlashPoint Pictures Company Ident

Like with the majority of films, our film also starts with our company idents, these are used to advertise the company that produce and distribute the films. Similarly we overlay film titles throughout the opening of the film which buffer the point more of who made the film. Our film titles are a white font which makes them stand out.


Instead of a scream queen in our film we have opted to develop conventions and go for a Scream King instead,  the scream king still has many aspects that the scream queen still has though. Such as typical blonde hair and going against the moral code. 


Location is very important in our film as well, we had researched a multitude of films previously for research on how to make the best film opening possible, we had looked at Saw and Wolf Creek in particular. we found wolf creek to be set like most horror films in a rural area which is what we chose for our outdoor scene, which is a snowy and enclosed alley. 


We further developed our camera angles to make our scream queen look weak, at the start of the film we used medium shots but when he was taken hostage we used high angled shots to make him look weak and vulnerable which is a common aspect of horror films.


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Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?


The audience for our horror film would be the younger generation. The range we would be looking at is the 18-35 year old range, of course we want to appeal to all audiences but mainly to that age range as they are the people who watch horror films.

As well as the age range the majority of males watch horror films and from watching, analysing and discussing thn within our group we know what we like about them and that is action, which is why we tried to make it fast paced when editing and not leave boring scenes in the film opening where nothing is happening.

Age range certificate placed on DVD covers

Another reason we are appealing to that age range and not a younger one is because of the BBFC rating out film would receive, after comparing our film to similar films such as Wolf Creek and Saw which we compared it to in our treatment, an then to an extent Scream. All have be given an 18 rating certificate, which is why we decided to give this to ours aswell.