EVALUATION QUESTION 2

How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

Characters - Jordan

Protagonist is of black ethnicity – challenges

stereotype that they are mainly associated with

criminal activities

Protagonist is wearing casual clothes –

suggests that he is middle class – which

means our target audience may

empathise with him.Jordan is clearly not doing anything criminal and is made out to be

the victim in this attack, he is opposing the

criminals and therefore is perceived as the

protagonist.

Protagonist has a decent laptop – clearly is not in

poverty – connotes upper middle class social positioning.

Characters - Maddy

Maddy is also wearing casual clothes, which allows the audience to empathise with her, as

she is clearly an innocent character – her

costume does not associate her with any

form of criminality.

Maddy is represented as an innocent female

character, and is the ‘damsel in distress’

character of our movie.-Follows negative

stereotype that the female character is

always the one who is portrayed as weak and is always the hostage in

this kind of situation.

Characters - Sam

Balaclava clearly

connotes a criminalistic character

Gun suggests the criminal has

power, authority

and dominance

over the situation

Leather jacket suggest thug-like

character, connotes

strength and brutality. We did this to ensure

that the criminal came across as both rugged and has reasoning for committing this

crime.

Character is unidentified but is meant to be hated

Follows the stereotype

that the criminal is

the antagonist

Race stereotypes

are reversed.