Evaluation Questions 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Questions 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? 



The social groups represented in our film opening is...

- Gender: Our cast is all females it shows a strong female presence 

- Gender: Also non-stereotypical of women

- Age: The cast is all late teenagers and shows a stereotypical aspect of troublesome teens

- Class/status: Class is shown throughout by the costumes worn (fur coats) to seem higher,  but there are mostly middle class people by the urban locations chosen that make it seem slightly lower class with the costumes. This gives the illusion that the characters are either working or middle class but somehow can afford big fur coats.


- Class: Not a typical representation of the Working/middle class

The main character in our opener 'Charlie'

I thought that a possible character from another film that could represent my character could be presented by 'The girl with the Dragon Tattoo' actress 'Rooney Mara'. In the film her character is seen is 'Lisbeth Salander'.

Lisbeth Salander character in 'the girl with the dragon tattoo'

Another possibility...

Scarlett in 'Lucy'

This is another Character that I think would be good to play the lead role of our main character.

In thought I think that Scarlett in 'Lucy' would be more representative of our main character and would be good to analyse similar and different points. 

Comparing with 'Charlie' with 'Lucy'

Similarities

Differences

- They're both female characters and are the main roles - Both characters take some type of drug and have a reaction to it - Both characters are brave and fearless to others  - 'Lucy' has a lot of the same psychological/thriller conventions our has - Positive female representation showing a good representation  of females - Both have strong female presences and little men presences - They both got caught over their heads in the deals they were matched in

- The age difference between them, our character is late teens and Lucy is mid-late twenty's - In Lucy her character gains control of her mind and psychokinetic powers, where as ours just has a trippy episode from drugs - Scarlett is seen as very fearless, where as our character fleas at the scene and runs -The age difference is slight, ours is more focusing on late teens and their representation where as Lucy is more of mid-adult so shows different social groups

I choose this character to be a representative of my character in the opener as I think that Scarlett's main character 'Lucy' is a really good representation of not only our character but our film in general and the conventions of our genre. 

This character specifically fitted the ideas and goals we wanted in the opener, she is fearless, brave and is a strong positive representation for females being the main role. This character fits well with our psychological aspects of our film and the fast paced action conventions of our thriller.