Final Draft Evaluation - Question 1

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

 

Final Draft edit

Planning- Props

Garage Props:

The garage contains several specific props in order to create verisimilitude. We are trying to create a mysterious atmosphere and to make the shots look gritty and dirty to reinforce the reality and hardship of having to live as an abductee. 

A wooden chair has the second girl tied to it. This kind of chair is used to show that it is improvised as it seems like a very average but old fashioned chair. It also helps because the ropes can be tied through and around the chair. 

 

 

 

This also leads to another important prop. Some simple rope that is tied around the chair to restrict the girl when she is being tortured. Any kind of rope will do as long as there is enough to tie the girl's arms and legs.

Scarlett's bed is meant to look improvised and uncomfortable. It consists of a few blankets on the floor which are dirty and untidy. This photo is representative of the kind of thing i would like to create. 

There is a bucket in the garage. It is not explicitly said but assumed that it is used for the girls to do their business. This reinforces the grittiness and realistic tribulence of the girls experience in the garage. 

The garage will be filled with tools which are grimy and used. This implies that the captor is torturing them and also proves that he is sadistic because he is torturing her in a surgical and precise manner. 

Interrogation room props

The most important prop in the interrogation scene is the table and chairs which the detective and Scarlett use. They need to look simple and similar to that of a police interrogation room in order to reinforce the verisimilitude of the set. This photo is an example of a simple table and two chairs which would be viable as a prop option. 

 The lamp is also an important prop because it creates a specific type of lighting that me and Oliver wanted for the scene. 

These are two examples of lamps which would fit into our piece. They are black and simply designed which would blend well with the subtle tones we will include to reflect numbness and isolation.

Planning - Makeup

For our thriller opening sequence, we require make up to use on some of the cast to give the characters features such as bruises/cuts and tattoos. Elliot and myself have decided to do the make up ourselves on the characters. To give us a better idea of how to do the make up, we have been researching on the internet by watching make up tutorials and have practised doing some of these so that we can complete them to a high quality for our final sequence.

 The black eye 

 For our opening scene, the protagonist, Scarlett Joyce will have a black eye in the police questionning room. Elliot and myself are going to be using make up to create the look of a black eye on her face. We have watched tutorial videos on Youtube to help us learn how to make the bruised eye look realistic. The Youtube video that we watched is visible below:

 





The tattoo 
The antagonist in our thriller opening sequence (the Detective/Kidnapper) will have a tattoo on his right hand. We haven't made a final decision on the tattoo just yet but we have been looking on the internet for simple tattoo designs that we can use on the antagonists hand and we have been looking at tutorial videos to teach us how to make a realistic looking temporary tattoo. These are a few ideas that we may use for the tattoo:

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