The document discusses the representation of characters in a film opening. The main protagonist is portrayed as highly skilled in combat and determined in hunting down an important target. The only other character, the villain, is intimidating due to wearing a mask and size, leaving their identity and motives a mystery. While the protagonist's motives are unclear, the villain is negatively represented through stereotypical traits of being scary and likely to commit immoral acts. The document argues that only the villain has been stereotyped so far, as not enough is known about the protagonist, and stereotyping can oversimplify villains who may be characterized by intellect rather than physical traits.

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

2. How have you represented the characters
in your films?
• The main protagonist of our film opening was presented and
portrayed as someone who is highly skilled in combat; both with
weapons and hand to hand combat. This can be recognised through
the obvious victorious outcome that occurs in our film opening. This
person is also represented in a way whereby they have a clear
determination because they are hunting someone down, and
throughout the scenes it can be observed that this target is important
and crucial.

3. • The only other character in our film opening is the ‘villain’ who is
perceived as a mystery because the person wears a mask, possibly to
hide their identity or past? This character is supposed to be
intimidating because of his size and strength, and this is usually
someone who would be difficult to defeat in a fight. Not a lot of
information is given away about this character, which forces the
audience to wonder where this person is from and possibly what are
his potential motives.

4. Positive and Negative representation
• The representation of the main protagonist cannot be
specified as positive at this point because although the
character seems to have defeated someone perceived and
considered as ‘evil’ his motives at this point are unclear as
the audience have not gained enough knowledge of his
background and predicament.
• The other character however is most definitely someone
who can be judged as a negative representation because of
his scary mask and intimating persona; although should we
abide by the common saying that is ‘never judge a book by
its cover’.

5. Stereotyping
• People organize their knowledge about the world around them by
sorting and simplifying received information. Therefore, they create
certain representations of the reality displaying its most typical and
fundamental elements and properties. These schemes are
responsible for defining the essence of our worldview and have a
significant influence on social cognition – understanding, anticipation,
situation and emotion control. This is all commonly summarised as
stereotyping which is used worldwide and has been for centuries

6. • In direct relation to my film opening I believe that we have
stereotyped the villain in some way because the character is the
typical ‘villain’ whom is scary. Intimidating and someone who would
commit immoral actions without thought. This stereotype is
undeniably stupid because there can also be villains that are
characterised by there extreme intellect, which would enable them to
confront the classical ‘hero’ with situation that is almost impossible to
solve.
• As for the main protagonist I don’t think he has been stereotyped at
all, because there is not enough of the film to see the reality behind
his life and choices he could make further on in the movie.

7. This is the main protagonist, the
costume we chose for this character
was very good at showing the
audience this person was prepared to
fight even before the actual battle;
this can be seen through the body
armour and the military based
uniform.