1. Question 2:
How does your media product represent social groups?
In our media product, all the individuals featured have similarities and differences.
Both characters are of the same age, both are white British heterosexual males and
although both don't have job titles, they both come under the same social class of
BC1. The two characters have the same physical abilities.
These two characters represent social groups, within this day and age this type of
social group wouldn’t be associated with the level of violence within the film
opening. However it is common within young adult males to be a little violent but not
as much as in the media product, this is stereotypical of males but not so much of
females, however there are the odd females who are violent, we do not feature this in
our media product. Because this is an action genre film, it puts these young adults
into a stereotypical/ non-stereotypical situation, its a bit of both worlds because the
fighting has been accentuated.
The location in which the film is set doesn't match up with the attitude and
representation of Benedict (Chaser). Young adult males wearing tracksuit bottoms
and hoodies would be associated with an urban area not a rural area. However the
shotgun would be associated with a more rural environment.
The gender of both characters is male. Stereotypically in our society males are more
dominant than females. Within the males of our society there are two types, very
dominant males with strong character, and less dominant males. The very dominant
male always over rides the lesser dominant male. In our film opening we feature both
of these different types of male, with Benedict being the dominant strong character
male and Daniel as the less dominant male. Benedict being the dominant male over
rides the lesser dominant male Daniel.
In our film opening we do not feature females, gay people and older people. The
reason we do not feature females in our film opening is because they aren't part of our
main story line, and in our film opening we wanted to really capitalise on these two
males. Older people also are not represented in our film opening because we wanted
to represent the younger generation. And finally gay people, we as a nation and as
world see gay people as inferior, and not as strong. Gay males are stereotypically
seen as very different to stereotypical straight males, gay males aren't as strong as
straight males physically and mentally, and this isn't what you want in an action film.
In an action film you want strong men who can save the damsel in distress and who
can stand up for themselves and for the males to be stereotypical males.