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Ripper Evaluation: by Emily Bowe

Emily Bowe evaluates her group's media film about Jack the Ripper. The film uses implied violence and horror techniques to recreate the thriller genre. It was influenced by the film "From Hell" and binary opposition theory. The film challenges conventions by only implying violence rather than showing it directly. It presents the male as superior through weapon possession and the female as vulnerable. The intended audience is teenagers and adults due to the implied horror content. Distribution to cinemas, DVD, and streaming sites like Amazon is considered appropriate. The filmmaking process taught valuable lessons about camerawork, editing, and the importance of lighting.

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Ripper Evaluation: by Emily Bowe

Emily Bowe evaluates her group's media film about Jack the Ripper. The film uses implied violence and horror techniques to recreate the thriller genre. It was influenced by the film "From Hell" and binary opposition theory. The film challenges conventions by only implying violence rather than showing it directly. It presents the male as superior through weapon possession and the female as vulnerable. The intended audience is teenagers and adults due to the implied horror content. Distribution to cinemas, DVD, and streaming sites like Amazon is considered appropriate. The filmmaking process taught valuable lessons about camerawork, editing, and the importance of lighting.

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Ripper Evaluation

By Emily Bowe
In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
Our media film includes weapons such as a knife and blood to
ensure that the audience knows that it is a thriller. We retold the
story of Jack the Ripper which itself is horrific. We chose an
alley way for the location because that is where most of the
murders occurred and because it was dark with no one around.

We developed our ideas from the film 'From Hell' starring


Johnny Depp. This is because this film was based on the same
story as ours, and it included many techniques, that we too
wanted to use in our films. We also used Claude-Levis-Strauss’
theory of binary opposition, as we had a killer and a victim. Only
in our film we do not show our killer’s face a lot, because we
wanted his identity to be hidden.

Our film challenges conventions as it is implied horror. Although


we see the knife, we do not see the girl being killed, or being
raped by Jack the Ripper. We thought this would be more
gripping and it would make the audience want to carry on
watching.
How does your media product present
particular social groups?

The male in this film carries a knife which makes


him superior because he has a weapon and this
makes the girl vulnerable compared to him. This
represents men as being in control of women. This
also represents the time period because women
were supposed to be housewives and look after
and wait on the men: to be “seen and not heard”.

This is the victim who is very vulnerable in this


situation because she is being followed, and the
man is bigger than her, and he has a knife. So she
does not really stand a chance against him. This
represents women as being fragile and helpless
against men. This is a negative representation of
women.
Who would your audience be and why?

 Because our film includes blood and violence, but most of it is


implied, I think the bbfc would rate our film as a 15.
 Teenagers and adults would enjoy this film because of the
suspense and horror at the murder and who did it.
 Our film is more likely to be a 15 than an 18 because most of the
horror is implied, such as the murder and the rape, so it would not
be inappropriate for 15 year-olds to watch.
How did you attract and address your
audience?
We tried to attract our audience by storyboarding our ideas so that the audience would
not see “Jack the Ripper’s” face properly. We did this by directing the actor to look down
and adding a top hat to his costume, so that this would shadow his face. This hopefully
created anxiety and dramatic tension, because they do not know who he is. However we
did show a shot of his eyes, but we edited it so that it was fast paced, therefore the
audience only caught a glimpse of his face.
We also included blood, a knife and a murderer who stalked a girl in the dark down an
alley way. This is a typical picture of a nightmare, which for our audience, who like thrillers,
would definitely enjoy.
What is different about our film from a modern thriller film is the fact that it is set in the
1800s, which our audience would probably not expect but it would keep them interested.
We decided not to use dialogue, because the fact that he was following the girl down
an alley, when it was dark, and there is music in the background, really built dramatic
tension, so we thought it worked better for our film and the genre.
What kind of media institution might
distribute your film and why?
 I think Paramount Vantage would be the best production
company to distribute our film because they have created many
thriller films in the past, such as: Babel and There Will Be Blood.
 I think stores such as HMV and WHSmith and websites like
www.play.com and amazon would distribute our film because
they are well known.
 It would also be shown in cinemas such as Odeon and
Cineworld.
 After being shown in cinemas it will be available to buy on DVD
and Bluray, rated a 15.
What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing your film?

From constructing our film, I have learnt how to use a digital video camera by shooting
various camera angles. I have learnt how to use a tripod, to make the camera steady, and
to create a clear shot, and at other times to shake it to create a point of view shot.
Throughout making our film we had to shoot twice, because the first time round, we did
not follow the 180 degree rule and we also did not turn on the night cam. However when
we shot the film again, we had a better understanding of how to use the camera
equipment, and so our film turned out better.
We have learnt a lot about using apple macs and their software like iMovie and
Garageband. We found the sessions and the CLC helpful as well, seeing as we had
never used this software before. We have learnt how to edit and create credits and
transitions. We have learnt how to shorten clips and merge different clips together in
order for them to be one. We also learnt how to edit music and add sound effects like
screams.
Looking back at your preliminary exercise, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your
film?
The preliminary exercise helped me to understand how to edit rather than use the
camera because I was in the scene. It taught me that we could film in any order, as long as
we left plenty of time on the camera in order to edit. It also taught me how the 180 degree
rule works, because I did not really understand it until we were filming.
From watching other people film their preliminary task, also helped me because I could
spot what they were doing right, and what they were doing wrong. We realised that we had
to keep everything the same and when we edited we saw that there were some parts that
we had filmed differently to other parts, but luckily we were able to put all the clips together
smoothly.
From filming our film we realised that the lighting is very important because when we
filmed it was dark so the quality of the film was not very good the first time around. The
rain added to the problem of this, however we overcame this when we used the night cam
and lightened the picture on iMovie.

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