Question Two- How does your media product represent particular social

groups?

How have you represented the characters in your films?

• The main protagonist of our film opening was presented and portrayed as someone who is highly skilled in combat; both with weapons and hand to hand combat. This can be recognised through the obvious victorious outcome that occurs in our film opening. This person is also represented in a way whereby they have a clear determination because they are hunting someone down, and throughout the scenes it can be observed that this target is important and crucial.

• The only other character in our film opening is the ‘villain’ who is perceived as a mystery because the person wears a mask, possibly to hide their identity or past? This character is supposed to be intimidating because of his size and strength, and this is usually someone who would be difficult to defeat in a fight. Not a lot of information is given away about this character, which forces the audience to wonder where this person is from and possibly what are his potential motives.

Positive and Negative representation

• The representation of the main protagonist cannot be specified as positive at this point because although the character seems to have defeated someone perceived and considered as ‘evil’ his motives at this point are unclear as the audience have not gained enough knowledge of his background and predicament.• The other character however is most definitely someone who

can be judged as a negative representation because of his scary mask and intimating persona; although should we abide by the common saying that is ‘never judge a book by its cover’.

Stereotyping• People organize their knowledge about the world around them by

sorting and simplifying received information. Therefore, they create certain representations of the reality displaying its most typical and fundamental elements and properties. These schemes are responsible for defining the essence of our worldview and have a significant influence on social cognition – understanding, anticipation, situation and emotion control. This is all commonly summarised as stereotyping which is used worldwide and has been for centuries

• In direct relation to my film opening I believe that we have stereotyped the villain in some way because the character is the typical ‘villain’ whom is scary. Intimidating and someone who would commit immoral actions without thought. This stereotype is undeniably stupid because there can also be villains that are characterised by there extreme intellect, which would enable them to confront the classical ‘hero’ with situation that is almost impossible to solve. • As for the main protagonist I don’t think he has been stereotyped at all,

because there is not enough of the film to see the reality behind his life and choices he could make further on in the movie.

This is the main protagonist, the costume we chose for this character was very good at showing the audience this person was prepared to fight even before the actual battle; this can be seen through the body armour and the military based uniform.