Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups

There are 7 key areas of representation these are:
  • Social Class and Status
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
  • Physical Ability/Disability 
  • Sexuality 
  • Region Identity

Which social groups we represent?
The main social group that we represent in our film opening is male teenagers. There are a number of reasons why this is the main social group that we represent. One of the main reasons is because the actors who play the lead roles as the protagonist and antagonist in our opening are both male teenagers. One way that we have portrayed them as teenagers is with their clothing. The protagonist in our film is wearing a hoodie and joggers, these items of clothing are what you would typically find an average teenager wearing.

Gender/Sexuality:
We appealed to the female gaze with the use of our male protagonist. Our protagonist is stereotyped as a strong male, this stereotype attracts female viewers. Both of our lead characters are male this is also another factor which attracts the female viewers. Sexuality is not a huge part of our film because their is no sense of romance. Both the male characters in our film are straight which is stereotypical for a character from this genre. 

Ethnicity:
In our film opening we represent a white ethnicity group. The reason this is the ethnicity group that we represent is because again both our main roles the protagonist and antagonist are white and have a white heritage. The location that we filmed our opening in is a town in the Yorkshire called ilkley, the majority of ilkley has a white ethnicity so it would have been difficult to have different ethnicities in our production. Also because we have a small budget this resulted in use casting our friends because this was the easiest option and because they live in ilkley it meant they have a white ethnicity. This may result in our film not appealing to different ethnicity viewers.


Characters:
In our film opening we only have two characters. The protagonist is played by Tom Cross.

Agent Cross
This character is Agent Cross he is the protagonist in our film opening. Agent Cross is a white male teenager. We chose Tom to play our leading role because he is well built and attractive which is a key convention for the protagonist to look like this in action films. Having Tom play our protagonist will attract male and female viewers. It will attract male viewers because men will take inspiration from Tom because of the ways that he portrays his fitness in the opening. It will also attract female viewers because of the female gaze. We have appealed to the female gaze by including Tom in a gym scene where he is working out. We have based Tom of characters such as James Bond but a younger version.












This character is the antagonist in our film opening, He is played by Will Laing. In our opening we dressed Will in black to portray that he is the antagonist and the evil character.We tried our best to portray Will as an evil character by his clothing in our film.
          Antagonist 

Physical Ability/Disability:
The physical ability or disability of a person in a film is one of the key aspects of representation. In our film opening both character have physical ability and there is no one with a disability. The Physical ability or disability of a person within a film is another key aspect of representation. In my production all the characters have physical ability. The reason for not casting a disabled person was because there wasn't any reason to do so, also I do not know any disabled people and as a student i decided to cast my friends to make the process.

Class and Status:
In our production we casted a White British characters with southern accents, to represent 



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