Creative Critical Question 1

Hi, my name is Amanda Sardinas. My candidate number is 0881. So my product uses challenges and conventions by using angles and shots to portray the characters emotions on a deeper level. So for instance in our film we have three main characters. We have Andy who plays Otis, Diana who plays Diana and Josh played by Bay.

One of our scenes is having Diana, the prettiest girl in school, stand on a sand hill, and there we shot it at a high angle so that she represents dominance and authority over our other main character Andy (played by Andy name is Otis) who is in love with her. She has this power over him that he can’t control.

We used close ups to overwhelm the audience and also have Andy demonstrating some solitude and a feeling of unrequited love because you see his emotions on a closer, deeper level.

It represents social groups and issues by showing how Otis, our main character, feels outcasted and only his dreams can he actually overcome all his fantasies of being with the prettiest girl at school and going to party. A lot of teens nowadays have anxiety and depression and they feel like they don’t fit in so we were trying to emphasize that in this film by having him have this dream. Thank you.