How does your media product represent particular social

groups?

Representation

• There are all kinds of different social groups in our opening sequence that can be shown through these following things

• Class and status

• Gender

• Age

• Regional identity

• Ethnicity

• Sexuality

• Ability and disability

The detective (Jonathan)Set- The room in which I have placed the actor is

very clean and neat we did this so that the audience can see that Jonathan is wealth as he is in a wealthy environment.

Costume- His costume also reflects that he is from the upper class social group, what we were trying to show the audience that he is a professional.

Expression- You can tell he is quite a serious man from this showing the audience that he is good in his job.

Props- The props are folders. We did this so the audience could see that he is investigating in the murder.

Lighting- The lighting is natural, this tells the audience that the detective isn’t false. That he is someone who can be relied on.

Blocking- We have placed him in the centre of the room so that the audience know that he is an important person from a high social group ( upper class, high status.

The victim ( Rosie)Set- We placed the actor in this location so it

shows the story and gives it a mysterious edge. we also choice this as it has no social group to it like there is no graffiti on the walls or any indication what social background this character has. We did this so that it showed that the victim wasn’t going for certain social groups, it gives the message that this could happen to anyone.

Costume- Her costume also shows no kind of social group as the costume is very normal so it doesn’t show any kind of class. This is representing the character as an ordinary person.

Expression- We made sure that the audience couldn’t see Rosie's face so it really gave the audience the sense of anonymous.

Blocking- We have placed her in slightly off from the middle to show that she is important for the story but her character isn’t important.

The murderer ( Maison)

Set- The set is a dark garage we did this to show the character as being a dark cold hearted person.

Costume- We put this character in a dark hoodies to show the audience a social group as lower class and a lowe status as people won’t respect him. They would typically associate with hoodies for example a thug.

Expression- We hide his face so that it wouldn’t give it away to the audience. Also it showed the character as having no identity they could only go off certain parts of mis en scene like costume, setting and props. We did this to show that those elements would stand out.

Props – The props that are in the background of the set show what kind of person Maison is. As there are weapons in the background representing him as a dangerous/ violent person showing his social group as maybe part of a gang or psychopath.

Gender

From our research it is more effective if we use a women as the victim. This represented the women as being weak and showing the men as more powerful as one of the men in the opening sequence killed her and the other one is trying to investigate and get justice and stop the killing. Also the fact that the men are obviuosly the man characters in it because they are in more scenes and in each scene they are being shown as strong and active.

Age

All the actors are aged 16 when it was filmed which I think worked well for the victim as it showed her as being more vulnerable, also it kind of worked with the murder as it added more of a twist and challenged the audience. But I don’t think it worked to well with the detective being that age as most typical detectives are much older.