Haleema Minhas-Evaluation Q1 - In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our psychological thriller , Education to die for , is about one mysterious girl's obsessive behaviour upon a new teacher's arrival. Our plot was similar to a film called 'Cracks'(2009), which is about a female teacher and a new student who is also female, and the obsession between them. Our film title is not the same, as our character is different, as she feels the happiness in her life, only when coming to school, because of the new teacher. We also decided to have a different gender approach, as we decided to have a male for the teacher. We also did this to make our story different from the storyline in the movie, 'Cracks'. Our titles appear in a panning movement.


This is the film, ' Cracks'. the trailer clip is shown below.





For our production company name , we decided to come up with a name that had our intials in it. We came up with MAD productions, which has the initials of our group's surnames (Minhas, Ali, DuMay). This also the white font, look mysterious against the black background.



For our location, we used the school, as that it where the story takes place. Our location is similar to the movie, cracks, however ours is in a public school and the school location in the film takes place in a boarding school.




The two school scenes are different as the second image is a strict boarding school and the other image on the top is a average school. This is a long shot of our locker scene.

For our two main characters, the girl who is obsessed and her best friend, we decided to create a opposite friendship. In films, there is often a popular girl and a girl who is seen as an outcast. Te two characters don't get along. However we decided to make a different type of character representation, to make our story dramatic and to puzzle the audience.
Our character representation is the opposite to the relationship, in the TV series 'Popular".





For our main character, Lucy Bently, her representation is a mysterious character who is gothic and into rock music. We wanted to do this to create an opposite character, to her best friend who is a more popular and bubbly type of person.
Her dark clothing represents her dark personality, and reflects her being an outcast from other people around her, including her best friend Phoebe Johnson, who begins to worry about her friend's strange behaviour.