Film Opening Evaluation 2 - Representation
Task: Who is/are your main character(s)?
Describe in terms of class, gender, ethinicity and age. What sort of person are they? Is it a typical portrayal? Are they a trope? Mention at least one point for each micro-element (Mise-en-scene, camerawork, editing, sound). What qualities have you foregrounded. Use Padlet to answer question 1.
2) Dreamcasting: Who would play this character in a Hollywood remake if money was no object. What qualities does this actor have or similar roles have they played.
If I had to choose one person to play [girl] then I'd choose an actress called Emmy Rossum. She once played a the role of an evil sister, who acts relatively normal (though very lustrous and flirtatious) towards boys in order to get their attention, then does horrible things to them in the movie "Beautiful Creatures".
I think Emmy best fits this role because she's played a
role very similar to Ching's. She's also very good at acting in a lustrous/flirtatious manner, which is exactly what we need. She also looks very innocent and honest; like ChingChing.
3) Issues: What issues (friendship, mental health, crime, guns, chaos, apocalypse etc) have you included in your opening how are they represented.
Firstly, she's a psychopath. She finds it easy to kill people, and thinks that it's a perfectly normal thing, as we can see in the scenes such as the relaxing by the pool scene. She's also very insensitive to other people's pain, as we can see left her boyfriend's dead body as easily as one would simply leave a house.
Another issue we presented in the movie would be crime. She killed a man. Although we did not directly show the scene in which she killed the man, we tried to make it as obvious as possible; we did this through the dialogue (which states that she wants to leave him), use makeup to make the boy deadly white, as well as show her physically leaving his dead, helpless body.
A new issue is obviously coming the protagonist's way; he's now on the girl's victim list. This may mean him ending up like her previous victim; dead. We chose to only subtly hint on this in the opening to leave a mystery in order to keep the viewers interested and want to keep watching on.
In terms of friendship, we did not introduce any friends to her because we wanted to focus mainly on her love life and not distract the audience from this, and also hint the fact that she is not like any normal person and that she does not have a lifestyle in which fits in with the norm.
role very similar to Ching's. She's also very good at acting in a lustrous/flirtatious manner, which is exactly what we need. She also looks very innocent and honest; like ChingChing.
3) Issues: What issues (friendship, mental health, crime, guns, chaos, apocalypse etc) have you included in your opening how are they represented.
Firstly, she's a psychopath. She finds it easy to kill people, and thinks that it's a perfectly normal thing, as we can see in the scenes such as the relaxing by the pool scene. She's also very insensitive to other people's pain, as we can see left her boyfriend's dead body as easily as one would simply leave a house.
Another issue we presented in the movie would be crime. She killed a man. Although we did not directly show the scene in which she killed the man, we tried to make it as obvious as possible; we did this through the dialogue (which states that she wants to leave him), use makeup to make the boy deadly white, as well as show her physically leaving his dead, helpless body.
A new issue is obviously coming the protagonist's way; he's now on the girl's victim list. This may mean him ending up like her previous victim; dead. We chose to only subtly hint on this in the opening to leave a mystery in order to keep the viewers interested and want to keep watching on.
In terms of friendship, we did not introduce any friends to her because we wanted to focus mainly on her love life and not distract the audience from this, and also hint the fact that she is not like any normal person and that she does not have a lifestyle in which fits in with the norm.
