1. In our opening sequence we have used both a woman and man, when watching our film people will automatically create stereotypes from
the ways in which we represented them. The main actress is a young black woman who in this case has broken her stereotype as she isn't
the victim and has quiet a high status unlike the usual women in films. Our character has murdered a man and therefore isn't fitting into
the usual feminine stereotype woman who stays away from danger and leaves it to the ‘stronger and more powerful’ man. The mans
ethnicity is white and he is wearing a suit similar to what you see here of Liam Neeson. Although Liam Neeson in most of his films is the
hero and saves the day (most of the time the woman as well) very much the opposite of our character who has been killed by a woman.
Stereotypically black woman are seen as controlling and angry, with our character just killed someone and keeping his body to treat him as
any normal human being she is being very controlling. We wanted to encode her in this way so it suited the characters storyline more and
brought the story together. I think the audience will clearly see she is in control and will take on this stereotype. We are representing age
also when adding ‘babies’ into our opening sequence. We wanted to show the dolls being there as a kind of pain to the woman just like as
if her real baby was there and she could be mourning over it. The audience could then sympathise with the woman even though she has
killed someone. The house we filmed our opening sequence in was a good modern middle class house which really challenges the usual
stereotypes of middle class people as they aren't stereotypically known to murder people and keep their dead bodies in the kitchen. We
choose this house specifically so the audience could seem more realistic and this would scare the audience more if they thought this could
really happen to them, so really I think we achieved what we wanted with representing class in a different way people usually represent it.