A PowerPoint presentation to explain a little bit about the representations we created in our AS media project 'The Missing'

1. Representations of
social groups in ‘The
Missing’

2. What is a representation
and what are social
groups?A representation is the way something or someone is shown in a particular way to
the audience. Stereotypes or anti-stereotypes are mainly the foundation for
creating representations.
Social groups or societal groups are groups of people who understand that they
have something in common. There are 7 social groups, these include:
• Gender
• Age
• Regional identity
• Ability/disability
• Ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Class and status

3. What we represented
In our piece, we represented gender. We did this by
conforming to the stereotypes of gender representation.
When casting, we decided to cast Josh as the
antagonist. We agreed to have a male character as the
antagonist to fit with the conventions, not only of a
thriller, but the whole of media itself.
Males stereotypically have to be dominant, threatening
and forceful when playing the role of the ‘villain’. We
used the mise-en-scene of costume in order to enhance
this convention, for example; Josh was seen wearing a
black leather, a black t-shirt and black jeans. Black has
connotations of evil, death and the unknown so we
knew it would be ideal to have Josh’s character wearing
it.

4. Gender continued
We also used other cinematography techniques
such as sound and framing. The sound patterning
got more intense on the run up to the reveal of the
antagonist and hits its strongest point as Josh came
on screen at exactly 1 minute 52 seconds. Before
this, the soundtrack was consistent throughout the
narratives unraveling. The sound reflects the
dominant nature of this stereotypically male
character on his reveal.