Thursday, 16 April 2009

Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In the beginning of our film (the two minute opening) there are only two characters known to the audience a male and a female.

The Male Charcter
  • White British
  • 20
  • Middle Class

This character is represented as being an obsessive male who is in love with the female character. We used a very stereotypical view that the stalker would be a male role which shows residual ideology, however we thought that if we followed an emergent ideology view the audience may not like it as much. You can tell the male character likes her so much, especially when he walks by her and the slow motion shows him sniffing her hair.

The Female Character
  • White British
  • 19
  • Middle/Upper Class

This character is representated to be a naive girl who is a hedonist. Her hair is neat and straight and this shows how she likes to keep herself presentable- possibly to males. She walks with her head up high and she struts instead of walks. This is quite an emergent view due to woman now dressing and trying to appeal to men. This could be what is attracting the male character to her.

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