1. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
In my opening sequence there is just one white male. For my opening
sequence I wanted the audience to recognise that he was an author. For this I
researched into what an author might stereotypically wear and tried to base
his costume around that. Authors don’t stereotypically have an accent and
given the fact there is no dialogue there wasn’t any need to research into that.
I asked a few people what they think an author would look like and the
majority said that it would be an old man with glasses, wearing formal
clothing and lived a fairly dull life. I chose to match some of this but change
other aspects. For example I made my character wear formal clothing but he
wasn’t old and he didn’t wear glasses. Also in the opening sequence you see
him taking drugs which is seen as complete binary opposite to a dull lifestyle.
Jordan Weeks