Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our Film was made to represent teenage, urban, working class boys and we tried to do this by making our film similar to Films like Kidulthood and Shifty. We tried to do this by creating a very urban setting. In our film we have shots of things such as tower blocks, an underpass, traffic, a lot of dirty walls and graffiti. We tried to represent our chosen social class by the costume that we chose. We decided that we would get the actors to wear hoodies, black & grey coloured clothing and flat peak caps. We think that this feeds the stereotype and reinforces this dominant ideology. Another way that we tried to represent this particular social group was by the soundtrack used. We chose a beat from the Grime genre because we feel that it fits in with the setting and the characters. Grime is a music genre at around 140 beats per minute and originated from East London. As we are trying to create an urban feel to the film opening this sort of music fits in perfectly. At the end of the film opening the two boys go and meet another boy who is smoking. This could reinforce the dominant ideology as in the UK over 25% of teenage boys smoke on a regular basis and a high proportion of these are working class. For our titles in our film sequence we chose to have a regular however serious style which could be argued to represent this actuall social group in general. We chose to fade each credit out by distorting them as they go out to create the urban feeling therefore representing the working class teenage male.
Our Film was made to represent teenage, urban, working class boys and we tried to do this by making our film similar to Films like Kidulthood and Shifty. We tried to do this by creating a very urban setting. In our film we have shots of things such as tower blocks, an underpass, traffic, a lot of dirty walls and graffiti. We tried to represent our chosen social class by the costume that we chose. We decided that we would get the actors to wear hoodies, black & grey coloured clothing and flat peak caps. We think that this feeds the stereotype and reinforces this dominant ideology. Another way that we tried to represent this particular social group was by the soundtrack used. We chose a beat from the Grime genre because we feel that it fits in with the setting and the characters. Grime is a music genre at around 140 beats per minute and originated from East London. As we are trying to create an urban feel to the film opening this sort of music fits in perfectly. At the end of the film opening the two boys go and meet another boy who is smoking. This could reinforce the dominant ideology as in the UK over 25% of teenage boys smoke on a regular basis and a high proportion of these are working class. For our titles in our film sequence we chose to have a regular however serious style which could be argued to represent this actuall social group in general. We chose to fade each credit out by distorting them as they go out to create the urban feeling therefore representing the working class teenage male.
OK, but use images please!
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