QUESTION 2:

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Focus on GENDER:

The villain in our sequence is very stereotypical, driving a car, armed with a handgun, fighting and knocking out his target.

However, our hero could also be classed as the victim in this scene and therefore does not conform to the stereotypical young male...

He is:

• scared
• tired
• foolish

Typically females are the victims, for example in horror films such as:

The female is cast as the victim - this is the stereotypical role for the female to take when there is a victim involved as they are made to seem vulnerable and helpless. However we used a male as the victim which goes against conventions of real media.

Focus on AGE:

Our opening sequence represents age in terms of experience. Older age in our films case does not mean that someone of a younger age can out-run you!

With age comes experience and that’s exactly what our film shows...

We also thought carefully about each shot and its framing to get across that the 'bad guy' had more experience and was in control...