Evaluation of the whole production: Undisclosed Desires! Part 2

Constructing 'the real'

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I believe our media product, 'Undisclosed Desires', represents a particular social group of people who watch a film for that rush of adrenaline which would be Thriller fans especially. It represents this social group as our opening sequence contains many thriller conventions and thrills such as when the male character scares his partner or when the deranged man creeps up to the man, this is what fuels that adrenaline that people like out of a thriller.

I feel from our film and opening sequence, it represents young couples, however, in particular people with psychological problems in terms of the hostage takers. One of the main psychological problems is a type of Erotomania in which the affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger, is in love with him or her. Our film, partly from the opening sequence, shows how victims of Erotomania can be affected along with their loved ones. In our opening sequence, not a lot of this is represented as it comes on further in the film but Rose wants Jamie to call Ellie (his girlfriend) in the interrogation scene as Vinnie is in love with her and believes she will choose him over Jamie. This is only partly represented in the opening sequence as it is meant to be a quick and dramatic scene, however later on in the film the interrogation scene is seen again but in it's whole entirety - showing, clearly, Vinnie and Rose's psychological problems.

The whole film conveys this underlying message of how victims of people with psychological problems, in particular Erotomania, are affected. It shows that even though his life is good in the fact that Jamie is living with his girlfriend, it can turn around suddenly if his not careful as no-one is invincible and this is portrayed by Jamie following clues later on and ending up in the hands of the psycho hostage takers. This then leads onto the next message that you should always tell someone where you are going - however this shall be explained slightly later on in the evaluation as by then it will make more sense.

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In terms of realism, our film challenges the sense of belief as the idea of two people with psychological problems being together and helping each other get what they want is fairly unlikely. On the other hand, this is what makes a thriller a thriller as it is meant to contain an element of disbelief and so therefore our film may not necessarily be truely realistic but I believe it works superbly!

Overall, the camera work, mise-en-scène, acting, dialogue, music and all the other elements that make up a film, played a big role in the construction of verisimilitude. This means that all the aspects of film all contributed to the realism aspect and atmosphere of the film and this is exactly what we, Thomas and I, the directors, wanted to achieve. We wanted to achieve this to aid the representation of how victims of people with psychological problems can be affected and this could not be done with a certain amount of realism. This is what I believe we have achieved.

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