Sunday, 29 April 2012

Evaluation of my opening sequence 'The Drop' Question 2

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product represents men in there mid 20's as powerful and mysterious and even though there is no dialogue being used, this is shown by a variety of low angle shots and the fact that John Smith's face is concealed until it is finally revealed in a couple of the last shots at the end.




The use of the props ,which in this case is the black suit ,
also helps to show how John Smith's character is powerful because people who wear suits tend to be of high status. The use of suits to portray a character as powerful and mysterious has been used in various films, for example in Collateral Tom Cruise's is wearing black glasses and a grey suit which adds on to the mystery of his character, this is shown in the scene below:








The young character of Samuel (The young male protagonist) is represented as passive , this is shown by a variety of tracking shots , along with the use of props which is his black jacket and bright grey jeans. Showing Samuel's character as passive is unconventional since so many other products have shown the social group known as teenagers as aggressive and irresponsible, an example of this is the show skins.

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