Evaluation Q2

1. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?

2. Our character is some what of a recluse. We have shown this by involving
no other character in the film. Our character is doing an activity which
most people do together because of the dangers associated with mountain
biking. So by only having one character in our film we have shown the
audience that our character is someone who likes to do his own thing and
his own way. Although he has a reckless characteristic you can see that he is
very professional in what he does. He is very meticulous with the way he
selects his tools and sets up the bike. You can see that he has done it before
as he is making no mistakes when he is setting up the bike. So from looking
at all this we can see that this guy is a mountain biker through in and out.
By looking at the gear he has with the energy drink patterns on his jersey
and his hat he has a particular taste in style, one that is common within the
mountain bike community. something that is stereotypical with mountain
bikers is their eternal war with road bikers. You can see our character
insulting the road biking community when he wears no helmet on the
roads. He is showing that the roads our safe but he is taking an interest in
safety when he puts on his helmet for the trails. However professional our
character may be way must not ignore his arrogance. Specifically when he
ignores the warning sign which tells him not to enter a specific place on the
trail. Our character thinks he can overcome anything and that the sign
there is there for no reason, but ultimately his arrogance determines his
fate.

3. Since this is mountain biking is the act that our character is
performing it is logical to compare him to other mountain
bikers. Unsurprisingly our character is very similar to the
stereotypes of mountain bikers. He has the same dress since
with the jersey and the pants with energy drink logos. Our
character has the same needs to go exploring for the trill and
the rush of adrenaline. The similarities go on as both our
character and mountain bikers have a similar hatred for
road bikers. Mountain bikers are obsessed with everything
to do with bikes and they will indulge themselves with sites
like pinkbike.com. We can therefore assume that the
character in our film has the same tastes in pinkbike.com.
We as the producers of the film can also confirm this with
the audience by posting links on our characters blog. It is
very often that you will see mountain bikers crash when
they are on their adventures. However we believe that most
mountain bikers have higher concern for safety as they
travel in numbers which our character does not do. This
shows the audience that our character is more reckless than
most mountain bikers.

4. Aron Ralston is the sole character from the film called 127
hours. The whole film is about how Aron goes on his own to
go and find his sense of adventure and doesn’t tell anyone
where he is going. Consequently he gets stuck under a rock
and there is no one to help him. 127 hours has an incredibly
similar narrative and genre but critically is effectively has the
same character as in ‘At the of the trail’. Aron Ralston has the
same reckless and arrogant characteristic that our character
has. When we see them in in similar situations we can see
that they both act the same way and make the same
decisions. We see that they are both in the same scenario
with a vast landscape with no one to help them. They also
both mountain bike (admittedly our character is more
focused on mountain biking) and they both crash which
shows the audience that the danger of mountain biking and
how easy it is to crash. We can speculate that Aron Ralston is
more reckless than our character. Although they both make
foolish decisions we can conclude this by seeing that Aron
Ralston does not wear a helmet when he mountain bikes
which is a use of Mise-en-sense which gives the audience an
insight into this guys characteristics.