1. How are social groups represented in our opening?

2. Location/ settingWe found where are opening was located, was a very important aspect. It is a visual method used to portray people living in lower class society, the location help audience visualise the characters surroundings. Important to choose the right location to mirror the characters, a lot of scenes were shot at Tesco shopping place, like other social realism films important to place characters in areas that are familiar to audiences. The simplicity of the surroundings really help represent the characters social class. 3. Characters portrayal The way the characters are portrayed can mirror their own social class background, such characters like Tay who consists in the first shots speaks in an aggressive manner and tone. This instantly creates an image of an obnoxious, loud character which can be associated with people from a lower status. Her public outrage insinuates that this might be a climax to all her anger. Situation you might not find from some one with a middle class background, this contrast is clearly shown when the young girl collides with another passer by. The mannerisms and behaviour also help represent this character in bad light, throwing a cigarette on the floor could show she has little respect for herself and her environment. 4. COSTUMEThe character Danni her costume is very relaxed could show she has very little care for self image. The use of dark colours could foreshadow the girls personality. 5. AGE GROUP?When it comes to distributing are film we needed to have consideration of what aretarget audience should be, looking at how to make the audience at home be asvaried as possible. Are first consideration is how to attract the audiences looking atthe age group, we all agreed that age group would be young adults we specified itto 16-20 years old. However we realised by doing this we were creating a smallaudience for are film, to create a wider audience we knew we all age groups from20 over should want to see our social realism film. To entice older ages we felt thatwe needed to involve different characters of different ages, this will take the focusoff young teens and more into the older age group. When looking at are film weagreed that the narrative was broad enough to involve all ages and even allclasses, though the mise en scene appears to be aimed towards the lower classsociety we feel that the narrative is strong enough to attract any class at any age.Me and my group feel strongly about this as we all agreed that domestic violencecan touch any person in any class of any age, when researching domestic violencewe found in 12 minutes 3 women will be physically attacked by a partner. Thisinspired us even more to concentrate on this issue throughout the film as it could betouching many peoples lives. 6. Gender :As a group it was very important we felt both genders could relate and connectto the characters. By having an all female cast in the opening which was the groupsoriginal plan, we knew that this may instantly create to the public audiences that thiswas an all female oriented film. Therefore we realised we had the threat of losingaudiences of the male gender, when considering this we knew even though the maincharacter was one of a female, including a male character would let the males havemore interaction to the film. That is the main reasons as well as creating variationwhy we involved the minor character Dan in the opening, who would also later appearin the film including more male characters, creating a cast of mixed genders. Dan notonly allowed males to feel more included to the opening. As main character was veryaggressive we felt this might make girls feel more unease about wanting to watch thefilm as it may be something they arent accustomed to. Allowing to create a dislike tothe character. Having the disconnection to the character, made us want to show themale characters in a more positive light breaking the sterotype of the malemasculinity. The male characters being the less aggressive gender may createinterest to the girls as they may want to break away from the typical traditional film,where the women are the innocent character, the man the more dominant andpowerful. On the other hand the main character being so aggressive might make girlswant to watch the film as they like the control and dominance the character Tay hasabout her, the strength she has even facing the male character Dan. Her confidencemight make girls find Tay likeable and interested in her character to watch the filmfurther. 7. EthnicityEthnicity and culture also has a massive impact on the target audience, it is vital that you include all ethnicities into the filming, broadening different cultures is important to making the film have a massive variety of audiences. In are opening we didnt include a different ethnic group, if we were to film again I believe we would as we want all different cultures to feel they can relate and understand the film. Again all ethnicities can come across the issue of domestic violence and suicide, we feel that by adding the different ethnicities we can direct the film towards them. We found that other social realism films like Bullet Boy and Fish Tank had a very vast majority of one ethnicity. Are group felt that this could easily exclude other cultures that might find interest in the British Realism side of production, however feel that the film is not aimed at them as there ethnicity is not included, Fish tank consisting of a major white British cast. We also think ethnic variation is important to a film as you can then add different cultural issues, by doing this you are opening up the minds of the audiences, having the experience of seeing cultural diversity as well as hitting on a range of issues across different societies of whatever race or culture they might live by.