Product Evaluation Q2
Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Before we started film our opening scene we thought a lot
about who we wanted our characters to be. We were thinking of a lot of
different social groups that they could be from and for each group we would
have a different costumes and the film would be different for each one. The
first group we decided to use was a low class group at the low end of the
socio-economic table. Their costumes consisted of tracksuit trousers and a
black jumper or jacket. We got this idea from a film like ‘Attack the Block’
(top picture) because they have got the older fashioned clothes in their film. However just before we started filming our
opening scene we decided that we wanted to go for a more modern look and to
have our murders higher up the socio-economic scale. By doing this we haven’t
followed a stereotype, we have taken the costumes from a different film like ‘Green
Street’ (bottom picture) where their costumes look more in-line with modern fashion. By giving
them this costume change we have completely changed the socio-economic group
they would be seen from. We have challenged the normal way of making the lower end socio-economic groups look bad, we have made the higher classed groups look bad this time by making the murderers look like they are from the wealthier groups.
Before we started film our opening scene we thought a lot
about who we wanted our characters to be. We were thinking of a lot of
different social groups that they could be from and for each group we would
have a different costumes and the film would be different for each one. The
first group we decided to use was a low class group at the low end of the
socio-economic table. Their costumes consisted of tracksuit trousers and a
black jumper or jacket. We got this idea from a film like ‘Attack the Block’
(top picture) because they have got the older fashioned clothes in their film. However just before we started filming our
opening scene we decided that we wanted to go for a more modern look and to
have our murders higher up the socio-economic scale. By doing this we haven’t
followed a stereotype, we have taken the costumes from a different film like ‘Green
Street’ (bottom picture) where their costumes look more in-line with modern fashion. By giving
them this costume change we have completely changed the socio-economic group
they would be seen from. We have challenged the normal way of making the lower end socio-economic groups look bad, we have made the higher classed groups look bad this time by making the murderers look like they are from the wealthier groups.
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