Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Evaluation Question 2

"How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

Our film represents only a small number of specific social groups, and though only seeing one character fully i feel the opening two minutes allowed us to represent three seperate groups.
Below i have provided images of the three social groups along with a description of who the characters are, their social group and finally how this social group is portrayed.



This is the original perspective of our main character. At this point in the film she represents the social group of teenagers and young adults (Between the ages of 18 and 25). This is done for example by the use of costume. By wearing a red dress and high heels she is showing our audience she is a "Party Girl". This use of red as mentioned before was also seen in the film "Sin City" in which a very attractive woman is wearing an elegent and stylish red dress. It is this look we had hoped to achieve in our film to show teenagers sexually provoked lifestyles in modern society.



In contrast to how she looked before, we have our main character after the events of that dark night. Her ruffled hair, smudged make-up and white/blank costume shows the psycotic side to young peoples minds. Because of modern society many young people find themselves suffering with stresses in various aspects of their lives. The reason for this sudden change in appearance would be revealed later in the film. That reason being our character had had her drink spiked by someone. This in itself is a way which the fore-mentioned social group are represented. As time has moved on, modern teenagers are finding new ways to try and calm themselves for example through the use of drugs or alcohol.



Lastly we have the mysterious and unseen Ryan, similar to the stereotypical looking teenage attackers in the thriller film "F" he is wearing a hoodie covering his face. It is because of this we are able to assume he is roughly the same age as our Heroine/Villain. In this scene we show a mild form of domestic violence through the way Ryan acts. He at first kicks her from the car and goes to drive away, only stopping when she has chased after him screaming his name out.

The overall intention for our film was to encorperate characters that looked like they could be real. This would then in turn allow the audience to empathise with out Heroine and possibly relate it to their own lives. They too could be experiencing the stresses of a violent relationship or the hardships of modern society as a whole,