HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL

GROUPS?

SOCIAL GROUPS

• A social group is a group of people who can be generalised in groups because they interact with each other, they share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.

Social groups can be defined by: Age GenderSexuality NationalityHobbies

REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL GROUPS

• In our opening we represented three different social groups:

Government employees Friendssiblings

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

• The Guard is one of the powerful characters within the organisation his characteristics are: A bold character who is fast, quick and frightening.

Our guard is the typical male character who is ordered to stop the spies which shows he has authority like the typical guard as they are portrayed as strong and powerful individuals. This represents the typical social group of a powerful position within an organisation.We dressed the Guard in a suit to show his authority in comparison to others.

• We took inspiration for the strong, male guard character from the film Bourne Identity. The Guard is shown to be wearing dark clothes and portrayed as being a powerful controlling individual; this is similar to our Guard as he is in a similar attire to show his villainous side. We are also able to see the importance of the Guard as he is sent to protect others. This is linked to our Guard Character as he is sent out straight away to get the spies as he has a strong sense of power.

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

• The female leader who is the head of population control has many character traits- Strong, independent and demanding she is portrayed as the authority figure.

• Our head character is controlling and has the most power in the opening; people should be afraid of her as she has more authority and control.

• For the head we took inspiration from Kill Bill, as Bill overpowers her and treats her as a weaker character. We used this aspect in our Thriller as the head has a lot more power than any of the other characters and is able to control them. As the head is sitting at the computer looking in on the spies emphasises her sense of authority. She can also use others, such as the guard ,to protect herself. We used low key lighting and black clothing like the scene in Kill Bill to give an eerie atmosphere as well as emphasising the villainous character of the head.

We also took inspiration from Vanessa Redgrave’s character from Mission Impossible as she is a very demanding, controlling character

FRIENDS

• The spies have the social group of friends as they share a close bond and have the same motives .

• Characteristics: Close and helpful to one another• In our opening we wanted to represent the social group

of helpful individuals, who are seeking a cure for the illness which is spreading. We presented them in this way to show the positive side to a sometimes negatively presented social group, as they are out to support each other.

• We took inspiration for the spies characters from the opening of seven as we wanted them to be mysterious which is portrayed in the opening of the movie; however, we are able to see papers being searched and analysed in the film which we similarly used for our opening to show to franticness of the spies.

We also took inspiration from Mulder and Scully as they both share a close bond to one another.

SIBLINGS

One of the spies is trying to find the antidote for his dying sister; this shows who the hero is in the thriller. He is very empathetic towards his younger sister which shows his characteristics.

We took this idea of protection and security from the partnership from the thriller Sin City where Dwight protects Shellie. There are a myriad of high angles used to show his heroic nature which we also used for our character. We can also see this bond in The Hunger Games between Katniss and Prim which we also took our idea of the sibling protection from.

MISE- EN-SCENE

• Throughout the opening we took mise-en-scene into consideration for all the characters. Low key lighting is used throughout which is a typical code and convection to a thriller film, we used this to add to the eerie mysterious atmosphere and to emphasise the plot.

• We used a brighter light when filming the flashback to show who the heroic characters are.

The idea of low key lighting also came from The Maze Runner as it added to the daughting atmosphere.

MISE-EN-SCENE

• The ideas for the black clothing came from Face Off where the two men are both shown to be in black clothing to show their villainous side. The idea for the flashback came from the film Kill Bill where the lighting is low key to disorientate the viewer.