How my film represents different social groups

How does my film represent different social groups?

Representation of gender

The Antagonist

• The Antagonist is not actually shown in the opening, which leads mystery to the audience. His/her face is not shown, so his identity is not revealed. This creates suspense as the audience doesn’t know anything about the antagonist, and from what the opening is showing, it only shows one person spying on young people.

• The audience could imply the murderer to be male, as from my research I found that most people did expect the antagonist to be male, however I didn’t want the sex of my antagonist to be shown in the opening to add more mystery and depth to the story.

Victims• In my film opening, I made it obvious that the

murder’s next subject is female. I done this through putting a circle through her in a crowd of people, and having the antagonist looking at pictures to what makes it look like he took the pictures himself. The females are more vulnerable to attack during this opening, as most of the pictures are of females, especially this one young girl.

• I edited the clips so it looked like the antagonist was flipping through the book, first revealing he was looking at the book then showing these pictures of girls. I thought this was effective as it leads the audience to first wonder what the antagonist is looking at, and leads them to think why is he/she looking at these photos- it foreshadows trouble to do with this girl.

• The circled picture and followed pictures of the girl and a friend walking highlights the film name, as from the opening we can clearly see the antagonist trailing this girl and her friends. It shows the female to be vulnerable to attack like in the Gangster genre.

• To challenge only girls being vulnerable to attack, I added photographs of boys in my opening, too. I edit the image of the boy so it went from his face being normal to lines going through his face, showing that something bad has happened to him. I like how I had used the software to do this as I thought it looked effective as it shows before, and the now effect.

• I still had other pictures of girls to keep it equal, but all these pictures with blood, being ripped up and having lines through their faces were supposed to symbolise that something bad has happened to that person-such as him/her being dead. This creates a modern representation of men as being weak, and a traditional representation of women as being weak.

Victims

• The colour I had chosen for my film opening – yellow is quite a neutral colour. By not knowing the gender of the antagonist, adds more mystery and one cannot tell if it’s the traditional male antagonist or if it’s being challenged by being female.

• I had tried to include both male and female in my opening by using pictures of victims, and writing victim names on a piece of paper which actually included one more boy than girl. This was done to represent men modern- as it shows both sexes are weak and not been able to fight back to the antagonist. Them dead suggests that the antagonist is very powerful and strong which would lead people to think that he is traditionally a male.

Victims