Only in Whispers (Question 2) Evaluation
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QUESTION 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Only in Whispers - Evaluation
Casting
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hen casting for Emily, we knew exactly what we
wanted to see in her character. A character that
influenced our creation would probably be Ellison
Oswalt, the central actor in the film ‘Sinister’, 2012.
Casting
W
hen casting for Emily, we knew exactly what we
wanted to see in her character. A character that
influenced our creation would probably be Ellison
Oswalt, the central actor in the film ‘Sinister’, 2012.
Below is a screen-grab of the
character we eventually casted as
Emily. As you can see, we were
inspired by the curiosity of Ellison as
he enters the attic of his own home,
and so we attempted to convey the
same excitement through this scene.
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hilst we had the aid of inspiration,
we also initially had a thorough idea
in our heads of what we wanted her
to look like and how we wanted her
to come across to our audience. We
wanted a high-spirited, zealous
brunette with a great mind-set for
adventure. We couldn’t have found
anyone more perfect to play this role
than Emily Whitford.
Emily
casting
W
hen casting for Megan, we knew
exactly what we wanted to see in her
character. A character that
influenced our creation would
probably be Katie Featherston, the
central actor in the film ‘Paranormal
Activity’, 2007.
casting
W
hen casting for Megan, we knew
exactly what we wanted to see in her
character. A character that
influenced our creation would
probably be Katie Featherston, the
central actor in the film ‘Paranormal
Activity’, 2007.
Below are screen-grabs of the
character we casted as Megan.
Evidently, we were inspired by
the concern on (above) Katie’s
face. This is why we attempted to
deliver the same emotion on
Megan’s face.
megan
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hilst we had the aid of inspiration, we also
initially had a thorough idea in our heads
of what we wanted Megan to look like and
how we wanted the audience to react to
her. We wanted a spineless, tentative
brunette with an intellectual mind;
effectively the complete opposite of Emily.
We couldn’t have found anyone more
perfect to play this role than Megan
Davies.
Social groups
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ne of the main social groups represented in our film is siblings;
the two main characters are teenage sisters. Again when we
casted the two actresses for our film we wanted to reveal them
to be nothing other than typically ordinary sisters who bicker
and disagree, so that in many cases the audience will be able to
relate to the two characters. The majority of our audience will
be working class, and we wanted to represent the two girls as
distinctively English.
Social groups
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s a group we studied characters who have siblings in films. We
also had shared knowledge due to the fact the three of us each
have siblings of our own. We noticed that it is not uncommon for
one sibling to follow in another’s shadow. We tried to deliver this
idea as much as possible in our production. For instance, we
placed Emily and Megan with a distant composition within our
medium two shots of the two speaking. This reflected their
contrasting personalities and relationship, too.
Social groups
Despite there being a fairly small age gap between the two, we wanted to show how Emily convinces Megan to do pretty much anything. Megan follows Emily into the attic even though she is extremely reluctant, she cannot stand up for herself and feels pressured by her sister. We produced low angle shots for Emily climbing and walking into the attic to invite the audience to appreciate her superiority and leadership.
Social groups
Emily’s dialogue throughout our opening consists of lines such as "don't be such a baby" and "you do this every time" to indicate that Megan is often scared of things Emily wants to do which can be common with siblings, however, we exaggerated this fact by ensuring that the concluding situation allows us sympathise with Megan, who didn’t want to meddle in the first place. Emily also frequently patronises Megan regardless of the fact Megan isn’t a lot younger than her.
Social groups
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ur costumes for the two characters were nothing exciting or
particularly unusual. This is because we decided it would be a lot
more believable and connote that this is just an ordinary night in
a typical family home to begin with. Traditionally, Ouija boards
are dangerous and not something to be messed with. Therefore
when Emily discovers it and is not at all threatened by the idea it
automatically says to the audience that Emily does not care about
consequences, unlike Megan.
Social groups
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e used several other props such as the book Megan is reading
initially which may suggest to the audience that Megan is a lot less
social than her sister Emily, who enters the room after frantically
snooping around to find something more ‘exciting’ to do. It may also
imply that Megan is more intellectual. Megan is quite happy to be
reading rather than going up into the attic, “I don’t want to. It’s
scary.” board whilst saying "I don't want to. It's scary." which makes
her sound childlike and perhaps boring in comparison to Emily.
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