Answer and Reflect

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

    Hey everyone today it’s time to get serious and dwell into these reflections. I need to first say I’m incredibly grateful to be given an opportunity to create and develop media that represents others. I want to break down the question above into a much more concise and clear understanding. 

    The question is asking for me to answer acknowledge is this the usual way things are normally done for the media industry and who does my opening show, talk about and how? Is it bad or good, is normal or abnormal. As noted there are TWO parts in this question. 

    First, is whether or not I follow the rules of a film in the dystopian genre. I want to be clear, I took inspiration from many other dystopian film openings , but I believe in some scenes especially during the beginning was more uncommon. During the beginning we introduced a breaking news channel and it captures the audiences attention by waking up and being alerted. I feel that this scene is different since in most dystopian openings contain an establishing shot and a clear view of the society. In ours we didn’t. We had to work what we had and this just help us establish the chaos and anger in OUR society and I believe it was the most important part in our opening. However, later on we did include an establishing shot of the area we call “the selection” to show the isolation and darkness to the society. In turn this follow dystopian films since it’s very common. We used no music or special effect to establish a clear sound design of a dystopian environment to create the sense of unease which is as well commonly incorporated in dystopian films.

    Secondly,I want to address the costume, most people won’t analyze as much but I want you guys to keep in count. I know we’ve agreed on keeping the society the same, but just in every society there lies a monarchy. Our two charcter are a representation of that. Lily (Oliva) is much more in the lower ranks of the society but she still wears the exact clothing as Livy, but keep in mind the accessories. We wanted it to be clear that regardless of having the same clothes, the same house, there will always be something else to set them apart. No one can stay the same. When looking at the film, which will soon be completed. We included our characters to wear headbands and shows. Lily has a black headband, showing off her aggression, anger and lower rank. While Livy wears a white headband, indicating her innocence, loving and high rank. The opening shows a contrast between both the rich and the poor, it highlights the economic inequality even in a “perfect” society.  

    I hope you’ll understand the importance of our opening and how addressing everyhting that create a clear understanding of ITS importance. Have an awesome day see you guys later!