2.How does your media product represent
particular social groups ?
Social groups
.The characters in our film are young adults of both sexes. We used both male and female characters to try to appeal to both genders. By using both genders we widened our audience as both male and female viewer will relate to the characters and will want to watch the film. Our target audience for our film where male and female of the ages from seventeen and up. To address out audience we used young actors which appeal to our target audience.
Who is being represented?
. As this film is a thriller we decided to go for a spy, secret agent feel. We wanted the film to feel like a James Bond classic so we choose to make our characters very posh and classy. As our film company is very small so we chose to base the setting in England and have English actors. In basing the film in England we represented the upper class. This is evident in the characters clothing and language. The antagonists of the film mainly represent the upper class, this is shown in the clothing as they all wear suits or classic black dress. The middle class is presented by the protagonist of the film who is in a simple white button down shirt and black skinny jeans. The difference in the dress establishes the difference in their social class.
.The editing of image and sound also help represent both classes. We used low angles when we filmed the antagonist as the low angle subconsciously make the viewer feel like their looking up to them and build a negative imagine in the viewer mind of the character. When we filmed the protagonist we filmed at eye level. This make the viewer feel equal and emphasises with the Fraser characters as they can relate. This shows the upper class and evil and insensitive and the middle class and equal. We did this as middle class people will most likely watch this film as they have leisure money to go the movies.
Character design and why ?
. The main antagonist of the film is a female called Sophie. We decided having a female villain as it would be a twist to classic thrillers. We wanted to have characters of both genders but we didn’t want a female to have a small role so we decided to make her one of the leads. In doing this I personally feel like I’m destroying a gender stereo type. Female are normally the one’s needing saving, the damsels in destress waiting to be saved. Instead we created this strong smart woman with the world in her palm. Her character was based of Irene Adler on the Sherlock series the BBC created. In doing this we again female viewers as females enjoy seeing other woman being independent.
Social groups
.The characters in our film are young adults of both sexes. We used both male and female characters to try to appeal to both genders. By using both genders we widened our audience as both male and female viewer will relate to the characters and will want to watch the film. Our target audience for our film where male and female of the ages from seventeen and up. To address out audience we used young actors which appeal to our target audience.
Who is being represented?
. As this film is a thriller we decided to go for a spy, secret agent feel. We wanted the film to feel like a James Bond classic so we choose to make our characters very posh and classy. As our film company is very small so we chose to base the setting in England and have English actors. In basing the film in England we represented the upper class. This is evident in the characters clothing and language. The antagonists of the film mainly represent the upper class, this is shown in the clothing as they all wear suits or classic black dress. The middle class is presented by the protagonist of the film who is in a simple white button down shirt and black skinny jeans. The difference in the dress establishes the difference in their social class.
.The editing of image and sound also help represent both classes. We used low angles when we filmed the antagonist as the low angle subconsciously make the viewer feel like their looking up to them and build a negative imagine in the viewer mind of the character. When we filmed the protagonist we filmed at eye level. This make the viewer feel equal and emphasises with the Fraser characters as they can relate. This shows the upper class and evil and insensitive and the middle class and equal. We did this as middle class people will most likely watch this film as they have leisure money to go the movies.
Character design and why ?
. The main antagonist of the film is a female called Sophie. We decided having a female villain as it would be a twist to classic thrillers. We wanted to have characters of both genders but we didn’t want a female to have a small role so we decided to make her one of the leads. In doing this I personally feel like I’m destroying a gender stereo type. Female are normally the one’s needing saving, the damsels in destress waiting to be saved. Instead we created this strong smart woman with the world in her palm. Her character was based of Irene Adler on the Sherlock series the BBC created. In doing this we again female viewers as females enjoy seeing other woman being independent.
. The protagonist of our film is a
bumbling idiot. Males are normally the knights in shining armour ready to rush
into battle, the bread winners, and the mighty warrior. However I didn’t want
this to be a boring thriller. I designed this character to be sweet and kind
with a lot of bad luck. I wanted the male lead in this film to still be the
hero but without the conventional muscle and guns. I wanted this character to
be relatable to the viewers, he’s an average person who just get into these ridiculous
adventures and ends up saving the day. This character was inspired by Forest
Gump and Rincewind from the Discworld novels.
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