Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation defines how a character is created through most of the elements of Mise-en-scene. The main are costume, dialog, setting and body language/expressions. The character can also be created through the use of different shot types. Representation mainly exposes stereotypical characters of a particular group or individual dominance. This could include highly rich taste in clothes which a girl/boy would wear in contrast to plain, simple dark coloured clothes a geek or an outsider would wear. This will simply remind the audience that this is a teen movie full of stereotypes in the vision of the main directors and producers.

The teen social groups that we have represented in out film opening are geek, popular girl and the athlete/jogger. All of these characters were stereotypical and expected in a teen film as well as involved in a stereotypical situations. For example we showed for the geek how clever but clumsy and vulnerable he was, for the popular girl, how beautiful, glamorous and self-dominant she was, and for the athlete/jogger how sporty and active, strong and physical and denominate he was as well. This was all represented to the audience clearly through the use of camera, mise-en-scene, editing and sound.

In our opening we introduced the characters with stereotypes how you would see them in a normal teen film which would cause the audience to see them negative and positive e.g. the geek was a positive aspect but as all characters are over exaggerated, the popular girl was seen as in between as you could make a lot of assumptions about here without an actual insight of her characteristics which would be able to judge further into the film and the jogger with a slightly similar situation but overall seen from a positive aspect. However the near the ending of the opening scene is when the audience will realise what it is about and can see our film from a positive aspect as it indicated three nearly completely different and unique people being friends out of the ordinary which is not expected or normal in a teen film.

Class & Teacher Feedback

 

In summary the feedback which we received was critical but in terms of how well our opening was and we received a lot of positive comments but there were a little tweaks and parts which needed improvement maybe which was brought up when the question was “how could we improve our film opening?”. We realised that our film came out near perfection and more than what we expected it to. According to the feedback we could evaluate ourselves and see how much positive progress we have made as well as if there are any thing we needed to improve on for the present and future.