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Tuesday, 11 May 2010

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

My main character shows representation as a thriller conventional damzel in distress; she is a young teenage girl still in school this is shown through props, costume, mis en scene, her speech and wealth and class.
My main character is representing the victim, my film highlights this by how our camerwork has been manipulated so the audience can established she is the victim. She has the most camera time and the lighting is changed throughout the scenes to add to the feel of victimisation so the audience can feel it too.
The villain is represented as sneaky, the sister no one wants to be; In the film she is represented this way as most thrillers have sneaky killers beacuse they don't want to get caught.
The wealth and class of the characters is shown as thay have a sit down meal at a dinner table, this is a stereo typical view of middle class citizens; this then reveals their class and also their wealth as they are drinking wine with their meal.
Costume is the attire worn by your character to represent her wealth, class and social group. As she carries a typical school handbag in the film this shows that she is still in school. A prop she uses is a mobile phone this again highlights her youth and adds to the stereo typical view of middle class people as ahe has her own mobile. The costume chosen for my main character was simple but smart black and white; this was chosen to show binary opposition in the characters. I used binary opposition in this way to shows the theoretical opposition between the twins. It showed the role dominace of the villain over her sister.
Below is a picture of our main character, we chose someone with an innocent yet attractive face to fit the role:

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