Evaluation Post 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our chosen social group is males between the age range of 16-24 year olds, in turn our film openings representations mainly focus on age and gender. We have used casting choices, camera/editing techniques and mise-en-scene, such as costume, to help create representations of the young male adults.

After researching how the different genders were portrayed in successful films, I noticed how the male gender was very strongly represented, as shown below.

As successful thriller/horror films usually have at least one male character taking a leading role, we thought that following this convention would help our film opening appeal to the male audience even more.

In Sherlock, 'Moriarty' also gives off a laid back vibe which helps further his representations as an antagonist in control of his situation and his actions.

Moriarty from 'Sherlock'

In the shot above you can seen Moriarty being put at gun point by Sherlock; instead of displaying the normal reaction of being afraid he seems very comfortable, with him even giving off a vibe of patronizing Sherlock by making think he's in control. The costume of Moriarty is of a very similar purpose to the costume of our antagonist. A suit is usually associated with a formal event, so the idea of it being worn by someone at gunpoint would never be thought of and this is what makes Moriarty a great psychopathic villain. Hence-why we wanted to emulate him within our antagonist.

As well as this, we used the news team to help be a representation of the ethnic diversity in London and therefore help our audience better relate with them. We chose a white male to act out the role of the news anchor, and we also chose an asian female to act the role of the news reporter.

The news reporter

These roles are arguably the most important in an actual news team, which is therefore the reason why we chose to actors of both different gender and ethnicity; this we believed was the best way we could give an accurate representation of the social make-up within London.

The news anchor