Thursday 26 March 2015

Evaluation 5- Social Class


Part 5- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our title sequence we represent social groups in multiple ways, you are instantly able to tell our social group when the shot of Dan our actor is dragging his bat along the gate wearing his gas mask and black hooded jumper. The social group we were aiming for is young violent anarchists and by the shots, editing, sound, mise-en-scene, typography, iconography and expressionism used I think we portrayed this well. We represented our social group through costume by choosing to have Dan dressed in a black hoody, black long coat, black vans and black jeans or anyone in the scenes in similar clothing either wearing the gas mask or medicine mask to portray them as typical anarchists, by all the clothing being dark this can also connote danger or mystery. By Dan holding a bat and slowly dragging it across some gates it could connote that he is going to do something with the weapon and agrees to the stereotypical violent young person wearing a hoody that carries around a weapon with them in a dangerous manner as gas masks and baseball bats are not something you normally associate with 'good'. Our setting for a lot of our shots was the graffiti tunnel of Leak Street underneath Waterloo east station which is a very odd location where people with all different social groups do different things. Being an underpass it is something that you would associate with darkness, intense and rough and graffiti normally has negative connotations which again would link back to a young teenage social class who have nothing better to do than cause trouble and hang in dark areas. Our soundtrack ‘head on collision’ is a fast pace, aggressive piece which would appeal to a younger social group as it is energetic and jumpy which matches the action to go with it. The typography used in our title sequence can also link to our social group as it is a plain colour nothing too bright and it blurs in with our static effect. The editing throughout matches the action which goes along with the music which can link to our events especially in the case of our main character being an anarchist. Most of our scenes in our title sequence are quite light which doesn’t exactly connote to our social group but could show that the action they cause are in the day time which again links the ideology of young reckless people however there are dark scenes for example the hostage which makes it very effective and more daunting. The way we used props to portray our social group was the baseball bat which is see as a weapon, a spray paint can which symbolises vandalism and again youngsters and the gas masks and hospital masks used which covers up the identity of the young anarchists and also never shows their emotion.

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