Media Evaluation Question

2. My first character ‘Jay’ was a meant to represent a
young youth getting introduced to a gang. This is
shown by his unwillingness to learn, by skipping
school, His anger shown by the way he stamps on
a can and also his appearance of having a scraggy
unkempt uniform. This allows for a very careless
character type who doesn’t care about his future.
This then sets up for the rest of the film, by setting
up the characters to display their feeling towards
different things it makes it easier to show the path
they are going to take in later life.

3. My second character is ‘Terri’, she is meant to
represent a typical gang members. I have shown
this through the clothes she is wearing, she wears
tracksuits and a jumper, the tracksuit is a very
stereotypical thing for a gang member to wear
since it is prominent in delinquent society. While
sitting down she also spits out chewing gum, this
shows her lack of respect for society, her body
language is also very relaxed and laid back this
shows that, she genuinely don’t care about
anybody or anything other than herself.

4. I have used the camera movement to reinforce the
stereotypes, I used a hand held shot twice while walking
backwards, not only does this link the characters but it
also makes you see them as more rough. Adding to the
stereotype I am trying to reinforce within the characters. I
have had more static shots to the beginning of the intro
and more dynamic shots towards the last half of the intro.
This gets the feel that the characters get more active
towards the end of the day adding to the stereotypes. I
also kept the camera far away from the main character to
show, how he is distancing himself from everyone, the
only close shot is before Jay meets with Terri and the
Anarchy symbol showing they are the two things he is
getting closer to.

5. I used the setting and location to my advantage,
during my first scenes with Jay, the setting in the
school were really run down and ridden with
rubbish, this shows that the school is quite a
shoddy one. This helps to back up the evidence
that it is a bad area. It also acts as a metaphorical
prison for Jay, He feels trapped and lonely while
at school and when he jumps into the field he
raises his arms and that shows that he is
victorious in escaping the prison and he feels
more free.

6. Terri, My second character is seen on a scratched
and graphitised bench, this gives a certain feel to
the scene, the derelict building behind also adds
to the scene because it has chipped bricks and
seems very uninviting. Also when Terri is
walking down the road she is standing in the
middle of the pavement, this although it seems
very unimportant, it shows her confidence and
strength because people would have to move out
of the way of her and it shows a sense of strengh
in the character.

7. Many well known social realism films focus on
gang culture and violent youths. These include
FishTank and This is England, these create a more
in your face, violent showing of youth whereas
mine only has one in your face youth at the
beginning, this will develop with the character Jay
as the plot moves on but Terri already has the
same attitude as most stereotypical youths in
films. This also shows a negative representation
of the lower class , but it only shows one side of
the lower class which means that it is only a small
minority of people in the lower class.

8. In my representation I wanted the audience to feel
connected to Jay, I wanted them to feel as if they
don’t want Jay to throw his life away. Where he
starts out as a rather mild mannered teenager he
will get to a point where he has to make a choice
and I wanted to set and example that you should
not always cause generation conflict but rather we
should go with the help given to him, but when
he chooses that and also gets another big point to
chose that he can redeem himself and become a
better person rather than just another vandal.

9. I wanted to make the character likeable but also
give him hard choices. This is because in most
films the character would continue to make bad
choice after bad choice till they eventually came
into massive self conflict. With mine I tried to
show that even if you choose the right option it
will not always be easy to follow up on your
decision but if you stick with the decision then the
outcome would probably be better in the long
run, even if it was very hard to stick with it in the
start.