Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Gender

We chose to cast a male as our protagonist, we did this as it was a conventional theme throughout this genre. This is because the stereotypes surrounding a male character are that this character will be strong and important. For a large majority of our film opening we tried to follow and represent these stereotypes. We did this by introducing the protagonist with a range of close ups and medium shots to create a preferred reading that this was the most important character.

However, we subverted these archetypal views when the protagonist was in hospital through the high angled shot looking down upon the character to represent him as weak and vulnerable.

Disability

We had a small part of our opening where the protagonist was disabled. We wanted the audience to view the character as weak in contrast to the strong, able bodied representation we originally created. We did this by the high angled shot looking down at the character and though make up and costume to make it convincing that he was injured.

Sound

For a large part of our opening, we had only non-diagetic, ambient music to create a sad tone to our opening. The slow, atmospheric sounds create a preferred reading that there is not much happening, it connotes a slow pace of life which is unconventional of the motor sport genre.

Towards the end of the opening, we had some more conventional diagetic sounds of the car engine. This being the only diagetic sound makes this stand out and connotes that this is an important scene.