During our media lesson on Tuesday 18th October, we decided to invite Mr Hood, our media teacher and Mr Leach, our Headteacher. We are presenting to Mr Hood because he is a qualified media teacher and has the technical knowledge and film experience to tell us whether an idea will work or will not work. We chose Mr leach as he conforms to the stereotypes used within our media product; as he is a catholic and is also a step father. We asked Mr Leach to come along, as we wanted to know whether we were addressing the serious matter of rape and Catholicism correctly without causing offence to any of our audience or over stereotyping.
Below, I have embedded an audio recording of our treatment reading to Mr Hood and Mr Leach.
Treatment
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After listening to our treatment, Mr Leach said that we were correctly conforming to the stereotypical view of Catholicism and we were treating the inclusion of rape in our media product very professionally and without dwelling or focusing entirely upon the issue for long periods of time.
Mr Leach deemed that the target audience was for the viewing of adults and young adults although not for young teenagers. He felt that it was very much a religious thriller due it being very dark, supernatural although very realistic. Mr Leach recognised several conventions; religion and the use of Catholicism, rosary beads and the crucifix. The location and the use of the wooded area, the stereotypical step father being the bad guy along with the use of a flashback. The costume conventions of the time with big glasses and large flares. Along with Mr Hoods idea of the media product being more tear jerky rather than edge of your seat horror.
