Thursday, 1 March 2012

(2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our influence for the protagonist in our opening
In our film, there was only one main character. We presented our character to look happy and cheerful and based our character around Rachel from Glee.

By using high and low angle shots we were able to show the characters personality. The first low angle shot was used to make her look powerful in the city when she had just arrived and near the end, where she is about to preform the high angle shot makes her look much more timid and scared. This shows how it could be her first big audition or her first time in the city. This relates to Rachel from Glee who always wanted to be a star in the big city and plans to move their right after high school.
The rude character is usually dressed
in dull colours.

Musicals can be very stereotypical and so we dressed our character in bright colours to show she is a happy and perky person. Furthermore, the extra in our film who plays a mean character is dressed in boring, dull colours.

We planned to make our character look young to show that she is just starting her career as our film was aimed at young ambitious teenagers who enjoy musicals. Personality wise, our protagonist can also be compared to Rachel as they both presented as having a caring personality. For example, even though the extra is the one that barges into our protagonist, the protagonist is still the one that politely picks up the bag and apologises.

Finally, the music we used in our film also helped to establish our protagonists personality. It helped to show how youthful the character is and it seemed as though it was her voice we were hearing. The song was also very upbeat and showed that something happy was going on.

In conclusion, I created a mood board and juxtaposed the different characters from our researched movies and our protagonist. Some are very similar while other look completely different. You can see how most are smiling in contrast with the extra from our film. The mood board also shows how differently men are presented compared to women.

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