I talk about different social groups in my film opening

1. How Does your media
represent particular
social groups?

2. First lets look at the
characters in our
seuqence

3. Agent No. 1
• Asian
• Young
• Male
• He seems the cooler of the two
agents.
• He seems in charge (he has the
tracker, and he answers the
questions)
• Seems to be the protagonist and
so audience like him because of
positive portrayal (due to
emphasis in framing and
dominance over sequence)
• Character portrayed as an adult
aged 20-25 despite actor being
younger
• Seems professional (wears suit,
and sunglasses, has tracker and
gun on hand etc.)

4. Agent No. 2
• White
• Blonde
• Male
• The less cool and more
inexperience of the Agents (he
panics, waves his gun around,
makes empty threats etc.)
• Seems to be the protagonist (or
sidekick) and so audience like
him because of positive
portrayal (due to emphasis in
framing and dominance over
sequence)
• Suit makes him seems
professional.
• Character portrayed as an adult
aged 20-25 despite actor being
younger

5. Protagonist
• White
• Male
• Young
• Black hair
• Blue eyes and ability to turn
invisible indicate some
superhuman element to him
• Portrayed as the most powerful
of the characters (through
hyper masculine framing, and
by being the last one alive)
• Character portrayed as an
adult aged 20-25 despite actor
being younger
• The most conventional
representation out of the ones in
my sequence

6. Conventional protagonist
of Action Sci Fi movie
• Male
• Young (20-30)
• White
• Dark Hair
• Typically Masculine (Physical and mental
ability, good social skills, good at job)
• Willing to take on challenges
• Handsome
Examples:
• Neo (The Matrix)
• James Kirk (Star Trek)
• Cobb (Inception)
• Xavier (X-Men:First Class)
• Wikus (District 9)
• Kyle Reese (Terminator) As Chris’ character fits this
• Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) descricption you can see that our
protagonist was conventional

7. Indian Characters in
Action Sci Fi Films
• Oriental Asian characters feature a
lot in Action films (Particularly in the
Martial Arts Sub-genre) however
non-Oriental Asian Characters are
scarce
• In Action Sci Fi , Asian characters
are even rarer, particularly Indian
characters, who are heavily under
represented
• In fact I could not find a single
example of an Indian character
• The only example of an Asian
character who isn’t Oriental which I
could find was the Arabic
character “Yusuf” in “Inception”,
who is a supporting character, From this you can see that Yadash’ character broke
providing drugs and driving skills conventional representations of characters in Action
Sci Fi movies.

8. Decisions we made while casting our film
 We decided quite early on that it would be better to only use group
members as actors as they would be easier to organise
 We also put Chris as in the role of the Protagonist as he ticks the most
conventional boxes as a conventional character (White, short dark hair,
male etc.)
 We choose not to worry about portraying characters older than ourselves
as we thought that age would be irrelevant in our opening sequence

9. Gender in our sequence
 There are no girls whatsoever in our opening
sequence
 We dressed in suits which have accentuate
masculinity
 We gave each character a gun, which has
masculine connotations
 Each character points their gun into the camera at
least once in the sequence, which seems
intimidating.
 The absence of women in our sequence is typical of
an Action Sci-Fi movie and shows how dominant
men are

10. Race in our sequence
 Our sequence contains an Indian character
 As previously mentioned Action Sci Fi movies do
not tend to feature many Asian characters
 Yadash’ has a positive representation; he
answer’s all of the other agent’s questions, and
has the tracker on hand for when it is needed.
 He is also the only one of the agents who offers
any sort of resistance to the protagonist
 He does however get killed by the protagonist
who is white which could be seen as a negative
aspect of our representation of this character