How does your media product present

particular social groups?

Representation of men Like most action and adventure films we have decided show a certain social group in a specific way. There are 7 main groups of representation, these consist of Age, ability/Disability, Race, Sexuality, Regional identity and social class, we/i have decided to focus specific on the representation of men. In our two minute video we decided support the stereotypical view of men, eg men being the dominant gender. We show this by portraying our main protagonist in a low angle to convey his male dominance.

GenderWomen have been under represented in our film, this is because our genre stereotypically focuses on dominant males. We represented our protagonist as being a dominant male, this is to support the stereotypes of an action an adventure. Our two minute film doesn’t have any women in it this shows how under represented women are in main stream media.

SoundThe sound we used helped to create enigma. The music is very loud creating suspense within the scene, when the protagonist finds the coding on the stick, we wanted this scene to be intense, and using diegetic sound is way of doing this. To make the video appear realistic and professional, the sound of an urban environment is important. During the phone call scene the sound of cars and people is key to creating verisimilitude.

EditingWe used finial cut express to put our project

together.

We used many different editing techniques to make our video resemble a real action and adventure. One example of this, is the use of jump cutting. We used this in our two minute, to connote the iconography of the the USB stick.

Genre Through the use of our environment we are able

to make our two minute long media project look and feel like a stereotypical Action and adventure movie.

Due to lack of recourses we are unable to create the stereotypical aesthetical cast of the genre, so we have tried to make our characters look relatable rather than desirable, thus not complying to the Laura Mulvey theory of “The male gaze”