Evaluation: Question 2

This is our groups question number 2 for the evaluation, the question tells the audience about which groups we chose to show in our film, how we  showed them and what stereotypes we were using.

All this work was done by Angus (me)

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

 

Our media group chose the audience of teenagers as our age rating was a 12. We thought that it would be easier to have an audience of teenagers as we are teens so we know what others would like. We showed in our media thriller the certain teenager group we were catering for by having stereotypical clothing on like jeans, trainers and fashionable hats that teenagers and younger people would wear. This would connote that we are teenagers and the audience is teens as older people would not wear as it would be seen cool and in fashion by younger people but not older.

 

 

Also we used colours to connote who was the central antagonist and who was the central protagonist by using colours of clothing. For the central antagonist (bad guy) we used black clothing to show that this certain person was dark and evil. On the other hand, the central protagonist (good guy) was clothed in bright colours to make him stand out and show he is good. In our thriller film this is easily viewable and there is a big contrast between the two characters.

We changed the actions of the characters because the antagonist is doing suspicious things like walking in the trees, writing weird letters and looking over dead bodies. Then the protagonist and his friend are walking normally through the woods. This would lead the viewers to think that the antagonist is different and the bad guy in the thriller because of the difference in actions by the two characters.

We also used all male characters within the thriller; this is because stereotypically males are stronger and more violent so we used a male as the main antagonist to show strength and power. On the other hand we used to males as innocent schoolboys and unaware of the antagonists presence. This is another contrast in the use of characters as we have one male who is powerful and has dominance also is killer and may kill again? And two young innocent schoolboys, this makes the thriller interesting and worth watching because of these contrast.

We choose to represent these things in the way in which we did because it is what we felt have to be done and what we would have liked to see. Like the different actions of the characters, in a thriller opening you would not see a antagonist (bad guy) helping a man with his shopping so our thriller is no different because we have the antagonist doing weird and suspicious things to make him look odd and different to the other main characters. This is the same with colour as we want the bad guy to be wearing black to signify that he is dangerous and bad, we have done this because you would not see a antagonist in white or blue that connotes purity and weakness. 

We used stereotypes by the certain location, the location is in a woods and this could be linked to teens as they may be in the wood to do bad things like drugs, etc. In our thriller we broke this stereotypical location because the two good characters are just having a conversation and walking home from school this could be a good thing because it would show that the two good characters are in fact good because they are not doing anything in the woods.

We are trying to give the impression at first sight, which are the good characters in the thriller and who is the antagonist is. This is done by the use of the location, clothing and the use of actions. I think that in the opening it is very clear who are the main characters and you could possibly get some background on the characters. Also we could be breaking some stereotypes for people which would be a good thing.