A work in progress for the social groups represented in our film opening, "Overseer", produced for our coursework production in 2014. An updated version will replace this in the near future.

1. “Overseer”
Social Groups
By Alexander D

2. How does our media
production represent
particular social
groups?

3. Social groups
– The social group represented in the opening
sequence is white male, one considered sane the
other insane. Binary opposition.
– Young, white, working class males? Sexuality an
issue? Disability?

4. How are they represented:
Protagonist
• Protagonist = emergent representation of male lead = positive
• Intellect > Brawn
Protagonist from “Brick”
(Johnson, 2005)

5. How are they represented:
Antagonist
•
Antagonist = Dominant
representation of psychologically
torn villain = Negative
• Norman Bates?
• Stereotype, perhaps residual(?)

6. Technical representation
• Mise-en-scene
• Lighting
• Costume
• Location

7. Camera

8. Sound
• dialogue: connoting

9. Visual Techniques

10. How does our media text serve to
reinforce or challenge ideologies
that are current in society?

11. Reinforce or challenge ideologies
• Values and beliefs
– Challenge:
• Protagonist is not the stereotypical gun-slinging hero
• That male characters are not necessarily the above