How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
part 1 for question 2 by lolkayleigh on GoAnimate
In our media we wanted to focus on the two main characters
from different social groups.
We wanted the main character Megan Lyons to be represented
as a normal mother doing everyday things but with a secret. In order to do this
we introduced the idea of her being a family member. We did this by having her
receive a message from her husband telling her that he has took her child to
school, also by having family pictures on the wall as she goes down the stairs,
shows this that she is a family woman. Being a mother it shows that she is caring
and she always puts other people’s needs in front of her own. When deciding how
to portray the character we realised the importance of the following:
Location
To represent this we made sure that the location of her
house was a little bit messy showing that it’s quite homey and she works so she
cannot always clean up. We thought that the paper chains on the wall would add
effect to this because it shows that they are celebrating Christmas like a
normal family would. Also a flower basket outside the house makes her look like
she takes care in the appearance and makes them look normal.
In the house we kept up all the pictures of her family
because it makes her look like she has a weakness. She is the type of person
who is very secretive. This helped to represent this particular social
group.
The behaviour of Megan represents being a normal person
because when she leaves her house she does not close the window or locks the
door, which shows how comfortable she is, with the people that live around her
which show that she is sociable with her neighbours because she can trust them.
Also she represents an everyday person because of her facial expression when
she sees the man that picks up her bracelet. Any person in this situation would
be quite scared because they do not know who the person is.
Costume
We also realised the importance of costume for this
character, because we wanted her to look a little bit scruffy because she is
going for a run and as a mother sometime they just cannot be bothered with
making an effort because they have so many things to do. In order to achieve this
she wore her hair down but a little bit messy to make her look casual, also she
wore her running clothes to make it believable, but she is also wearing proper
running leggings and trainer to make it look like she does this on a daily
basis which shows that she is very fit. She is wore a university jumper to show
the audience that she is smart and old enough to have a child.
Character
Megan fitted in with the characterisation of the character
because of the way that she carried herself she always looked like she was
holding something back, also making her character look like a victim fitted
really well. The way she portrayed the character represented this particular
social group.
Next character
Hayley “the spy”
The typical spy
Hayley’s character is the total opposite of
Megan’s character. We wanted her to represent the other end of the social
scale. She is quite loud and sarcastic and does not really care what people
think. When casting for this character we wanted someone who was quite young and
pretty.
When choosing her costume we wanted her to look
as if she was wearing those clothes from a while, because she has been out on a
mission that has gone wrong. She was wearing all black with a leather jacket
which is typical for what a spy would wear. We also wanted her to look scruffy
so her hair was quite messy to look like she has struggled to get out of where
she is now. The makeup that we used was eyeliner at that was it because it gave
her a edginess’ about her which was the type of character that we were going
for. We did not use any fake blood because we thought that it would look really
fake and unrealistic which would detract the audience away from what was
happening , also we thought about how that the interrogator needed information
from her that is why he has not hurt her yet.
Behaviour
They way that she behaved was also represented a typical loud
and sarcastic because she answers about and is really patronising towards the
interrogator.
The Dark Knight Interrogation scene
Action/thriller movie consist of the person being
interrogated to be loud, patronising and sarcastic. We used a similar idea to
this. Slow shots were used to create tension between the characters, but as the
interrogator lost his patients the shots get faster to show that he is getting
frustrated because they are not getting what he wants out of them. In this way,
this part of our sequence is represented of the age and the type of person they
are. She is young and very defensive.
However our media does represent another social group
because of the men that are involved. They represent the dominate men in
society. We made them dominate by having the man in the first half standing
outside her house and showing up when Megan least expected it. The fact that this
man only had one line in the whole opening that just his presence makes a
person feel uncomfortable. In the second half he was the different side of
dominate to the first half because the interrogator was violent towards the
spy, showing that he does not care about the person he only uses them. Their
costume was the same, a suit. This represents the social group because it shows
that they are in the same business, which shows that men who wear suits and
that are in the hierarchy tend to be more dominate over people.
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