Olivia is a 21-year-old white British woman with anterograde amnesia who wakes up every day with no memories. She is being used in biological experiments by Samuel, a 32-year-old white British male doctor, without her knowledge due to her condition. Mise-en-scene, camerawork, editing, and sound are used to portray Olivia as vulnerable and weak, with little identity or power, through close-ups, overhead shots, a lack of props in her plain room, and her scared voiceover. Samuel is shown to have more power and dominance through his wealth and a shot looking over Olivia's shoulder. The film aims to represent mental illness differently than typical portrayals

1. How does your product represent particular social groups?

2. Characters
Olivia.
Gender- Female
Age- 21
Ethnicity- white
british
Class- middle
Role- Has a condition called anterograde amnesia
meaning she wakes up with no memories of the previous day. She is being used for biological experiments but doesn't know about this due to her condition. She is
vulnerable but wants to figure out what's going on
Samuel
Gender- male
Age- 32
Ethnicity- white

3. 1. How have you constructed ideas about your character through mise en scene, camerawork, editing
and sound?
Mise en scene
The opening sequence of movie represents very few social groups. Some
examples of these are age and gender. Both male and female genders are represented with
Olivia female and samuel male. Olivia is only represented as young female (21) as she
doesn't know much about her past due to her condition. However, samuel can be
represented as a middle age man representing the upper middle class due to a good job as
a doctor as represented through olivia's flashbacks. The props and costume used by
sammel it is difficult to tell that samuel is a doctor because he is wearing casual cloths when
he is seen. In the room scenes, very little props are used, this is because the room is meant
to be as plain and empty as possible to represent her memory. However in the flashbacks a
lot of scientific equipment is used in samuel's house showing he has the wealth to have this
and keep it from everyone.

4. 1. How have you constructed ideas about your character through mise en scene, camerawork, editing
and sound?
Camerawork
Camera angles can portray a lot about a character. Through the choice
of camera angles we portrayed our character as vulnerable and weak. An
example of this would be the opening shot was a birds eye view looking down at
olivia. Looking down at someone implies that they are below other people and
therefore have less power. We also used a close up of her face showing her
shock of waking up. This is followed by her confusion of the location adding to her
vulnerability. The fact that little props are used implies she has only very little. This
show her character to have no or very little identity. Another example of
vulnerability is the over the shoulder shot of samuel looking at olivia showing his
dominance over her.

5. 1. How have you constructed ideas about your character through mise en scene, camerawork, editing
and sound?
Editing
We show
that Olivia is the main character through editing as she is on the screen the most
of the time. Also, as samuel appears in none of the flashbacks it shows that he is
not as important as a character.
Sound
Throughout the clip, a voice over of Olivia is used showing she is the main
character. Her voice also sounds very scared showing her vulnerability.

6. Social Stereotypes in film and our Representation
In our film we have a character with mental health issues, reports of mental illness in film claim “depictions
haven't moved on from the silent era, revealing that characters with a mental illness are either evil or
simple, with nothing in between.” Our film instead shows a woman battling with her mental illness to save
herself, when the film started the opening sequence shows her as a confused and vulnerable character
and the audience at this point are not yet aware of her mental illness which is late explained.The audience
are then able to come up with their own thoughts on how the story will unfold with a mentally ill character
as the victim rather than the villain. Villainous characters with mental illnesses in HollyWood (Donnie
Darko and Split)