How does your media group represent particular social groups?

I think we managed to represent the people involved in our thriller opening with ease and clarity. To represent our victims we used high angle shots to show there positioning was inferior and made sure they were in a mid-shot so that the audience could see they were tied up or helpless against our protagonist. I think we also managed to represent the victims well by using women because stereotypically they are inferior physically compared to men, this gave us an advantage due to the audience being able to relate to this. Using age for the victims wasn’t a big issue altogether because everyone taking part was around the same age so we kept it as such, and showed physical dominance over age supremacy. Due to us using the victims as females we could refer this back to numerous campaigns held globally about violence towards women, this means that it is obviously recognisable the severity of a situation such as the one performed in our thriller opening.

 

The way we represented the protagonist through our sequence I believe is through mise-en-scene, especially camera angles. We first represented his masculinity through his gender. However politically correct it may or may not be, males have always had a physical dominance over females. When we were picking our protagonist we thought about using a female but it seemed odd and the plot would’ve had to been changed. Secondly, his clothing; he is always seen with the hood over his head to create a sense of mystery and have the look of someone cynical. I think this worked well; we used a trench coat-like parka that concealed his facial features to a certain extent. With the camera angle we used many long shot when he was capturing the victims to show sheer size difference that represented supremacy and authority. We also used high angle shots to represent his superiority that was shown with the opening titles. This worked well and connoted that his role was fulfilled by using these shots.