Evaluation 2

Evaluation 2

Our media project (DNA-Pocalypse) subverts typical stereotypes of how women, men and teenagers are presented. We have chosen to subvert from typical stereotypes due to the fact that in post-apocalyptic films, the characters tend to subvert their stereotypes by unifying into one group to survive.

In our film we have 3 main characters Boris, Jim and Nicola who are teenagers trying to outlast the apocalypse of genetic mutations. These 3 teenagers subvert their stereotypical ideology as teenagers are typically represented as irresponsible and reckless whereas our group come together and hideout to try and survive like mature and responsible adults. As a group we decided this was the best way to shoot our film with them juxtaposing their stereotypes as we wanted the audience to understand the seriousness of their situation and by acting responsibly the audience know that, that is abnormal for teenagers to do typically. We supported our stereotypical conventions through the variety of techniques used in our film. An example of this would be when they are sat in the cage. As I was in charge of cinematography I had chosen to set the camera to a high angled position looking down at all of the characters and ensured that know character was higher than the other as they were all equally vulnerable to the mutations that lie outside the cage. In virtually all of our scenes as well our characters are always positioned in close proximity to show that they are keeping close together to survive rather than doing irresponsible teenage habits.

Additionally, teenagers are typically represented as emotionless and fearless. However we juxtaposed this idea due to the situation the main characters were in. We did this by shooting close ups of our main characters face when they find out the government were responsible for the genetic outburst, accompanied with sympathetic non-diegetic music. Here this shows that the teenagers are worried as they haven't even got the government to help them and the close ups show clearly their nerving emotions on each of their faces.