HOW DOES YOURMEDIA PRODUCTREPRESENTPARTICULAR SOCIALGROUPS?Emma L. Bentley

A social group is a group of people who can be generalised ingroups because they interact with each other, and are awarethat they have something in common.

Social groups can be defined by:

Age

Gender

Sexuality/Nationality

Hobbies etc

Social Groups

In Our Opening, We Represented Two DifferentSocial Groups

Mistress Wronged Woman

Fiancée

Representation of Social Groups

MistressCharacter traits: Revenge, Evil, Sneaky, Sly,Promiscuous.

In our film,we represented the social group ofmistresses.

Our mistress is very sly and acts two-faced towardsher best friend, she seems talkative and kind, eventhough she has been going behind her friend's backwith her new fiancee.

We dressed her in promiscuous clothes throughout,such as crop tops, and revealing dresses, and thathelped portray her character.

We took our inspiration from Glenn Close from the filmFatal Attraction. She is a psychopath who tries to kill

her 'boyfriend's' family so that she can be with him,instead of his actual family. She also dresses quite

promiscuously to allure the man, and create a strongcharacter identity.

Here is who we've used as ourinspiration. These two shots are

almost identical, however ourmistress doesn't yet have a knife in

her hand, she picks it up off thechopping board. We liked the idea of

the social group behind 'unveiled' intosociety through this shot.

Wronged WomanCharacter Traits: Unsuspecting,

Innocent, Ordinary,Upset, Hysterical, Shock, Powerless.

In our film opening,we felt it

important to represent the socialgroup of wronged/cheated on

women..

Our wronged woman is very averageand polite. She is convinced that sheis in love, and is desperate to tell her

best friend her engagement news.

We dressed this character in everyday clothes to represent her socialgroup. A wronged woman is often very normal and in a happy

relationship.

We took our inspiration from Uma Thurman who starred in 'Kill Bill'. Shewas attacked because she was in love, so too was our wronged woman.

There is a sound when Uma is shot which I really loved because itcertainly frightened the viewer and represented the thriller genre.

Therefore, when editing, I found a similar sound and added it to the end.

Uma Thurman was wearing a wedding dress, however we wanted to stickwith our social group stereotype, but still use the blood in the

background to emphasize what has happened.

Unfaithful FinacéeCharacter Traits: Unfaithful, Sneaky, Attractive,

Alluring, Romantic, Charming.

In our opening, we wanted to represent thecontroversial social group of unfaithful men. We feltit important to portray our character in a way that

our audience could easily associate with thecontroversial social group.

Our unfaithful fiancée is very charming andattractive. We see him propose to one woman, but

then in the flashbacks he brings flowers to, andkisses another woman.

For the unfaithful man, we took our inspiration from CastorTroy-Nicolas Cage, from 'Face Off'. After they swapped faces, he cheatson his own girlfriend with his 'other' face's wife. The audience get to see

the whole picture and understand what he is doing, whereas the wifehas no clue. We tried to apply this to our own opening so that the

audience knew what was going by seeing him with both women, whichadded suspense and angst.

We thought about what happens in the real-world with our socialgroup, and decided that in a lot of the cases, the man doesn't get

punished. The man usually gets away with it, and we believed it bestto remove him from the last part of the opening. We also wanted himto appear very charming and be associated with being a 'ladies man'.

Face Off The Mistress