Applying the 5 key concepts to our short film- Amy

Gender

Our short film will show gender through a lot of things, including costume and dialogue.
The fact that our main character wonders off on his own is a stereotypically male thing to do as he feels that he is brave and look after himself,
However as our short film unravels you find that the character is just as scared as a female may be, we can tell this by the tone of his voice and the panic in his facial expressions.


Age

Age is a key concept in our short film, we do this to show that our film is a modern example of what teenagers are like in the present time. The teenagers are thrill seekers and start off the short film acting like they are not afraid of anything, they are trying to be independent by going off unsupervised and trying to look after themselves as adults would.



Media Language

Our short film will be made up mostly off very quickly paced extreme and big close ups, this is to keep the attention on the main character and to show how he may be feeling the audience will be able to tell this from his facial expression, and then when we use shots that show more such as long shots and medium long shots we will see the characters body language, this will make the audience feel for the character and imagine what it would be like to be in his situation. We will also have some tracking shots to create the illusion that you are seeing an eye line shot from Slender man himself.
The dietetic sound in our short film will turn into just heavy breathing and the sound off the main characters footsteps with the occasional dialogue from him, this will start after the first couple off scenes that will be made up off dialogue, we have chosen to do this to give the feeling off isolation, it also adds suspense to our film and will create a sense of panic in the audience, the dialogue in the begging will be a false sense off reassurance as the audience will think that it is all okay.

Representation

The main representation in our short film will be the representation off teenagers and how they feel over confident about doing something and may not think things through before doing them, it also has a moral in the short film as it is saying don't go looking for trouble unless you are able to deal with it.

Narrative

Our narrative is a circular narrative, this means that there is three stages in our short film:
The equilibrium- The idea that they are going into the woods to prove if Slender man is real, everything seems fine
The disruption- When the main character gets back to camp and finds everyone gone, then he starts to panic and gets out off the forest
The resolution- When Slender man catches him at the end
Most off our short film will be the disruption as it is all based around the chase off the character and how he feels and the feeling of isolation.

Audience

Our target audience will be teenagers from the age off 13-18 as from our research we have found that these are the age off  people that have played the Slender man video game, we also feel that as our characters are all around the age of 16 this will connect to our audience and make them imagine and feel what the characters are feeling throughout our short film.