Class Race Age Gender Sexuality

1. Social Groups Social groups can be Split into 5 different categories; -Class -Race -Age -Gender -Sexuality

2. Oliver Maloney Class – Middle Class Race – Caucasian Age – 17-18 Gender – Male Sexuality – Straight

3. James Waymont Class – Middle Class Race – Caucasian Age – 17-18 Gender – Male Sexuality – Straight

4. Will Gent Class – Middle Class Race – Caucasian Age – 17 Gender – Male Sexuality – Straight

5. ArjunNayar Class – Middle Class Race – Asian Age – 17 Gender – Male Sexuality – Straight

6. Class This refers to the social background of the characters involved. All characters are shown to be middle-class, due to their outfits and mannerisms, which provide hints towards their intelligence, which in turn gives us an idea of the kind of education they had. Being quite cultured, we could say they went to private schools, and were brought up in families which had the necessary income to keep them at school.

7. Race In terms of Race, we have three Caucasians and one Asian. Generally, in most action films, the main actors are either stereotypically tough males Caucasian males from military backgrounds, or even a very stereotypical Afro-American male. Very rarely has there been an Asian (specifically Indian) main character in an action movie. There have been some successes in the British film industry using ethnic actors (e.g. Noel Clarke), showing that the industry is beginning to open up towards the minorities.

8. Age It was important to have the actors at roughly the same age as the target audience; young males, looking between 18-20. This would be appealing towards the early twenty-something year olds who would be part of out ideal target audience, who would be either in university or in work, earning enough money to afford luxuries such as visiting the cinema and watching this product. The actors also had to look old enough to realistically be able to be cast into their jobs ((e.g. Undercover Police Officer.))

9. Gender As action films are a conventionally male-dominated genre, male actors were part of the initial plan for the product. We did think about involving something for a female role, such as a heroine or femme fatale, but we decided against it due to the fear of being unable to clearly portray female ‘action heroine’ roles as well as they have in the media market (e.g. Lara Croft, Eveline Salt, Ellen Ripley.) We also had mainly male lead characters due to our target audience being mainly composed of males seeking adrenaline rush.

11. Therefore, it was important to establish that whilst they worked together, there was nothing relationship-wise to suggest any sign of homosexuality. Both characters appear to be very masculine in their words and actions.