Evaluation of how our media product represents particular social groups

1. How does your media product
represent particular social
groups?
By Lee Wilson

2. What we aimed to achieve
● The characters in this film are meant to follow the
basic stereotypes of the given genre, and we have tried
to achieve this using a number of different techniques.
● The three I shall go over in this presentation are:
- Lighting
- Camera angles/shots
- Characterisation

3. Lighting
● For the character of The Suit
I wanted there to be an
ominous or mysterious quality
about him, to achieve this his
scenes were shot in a low-key
lighting and at times using a
chiaroscuro lighting effect.
The nature of this type of
lighting adds to the drama and mystery of the character and
situation, as we are trying to show that “the suit” is the main
villain of the film and the dark tones help personify that.

4. Lighting
● In contrast to The Suit we have the character of Irish
Tommy has all of his scenes shot in daylight, giving a
less intimidating and mysterious setting, which ties in
to the character of Irish Tommy being a very obvious
and non-mysterious character.
It is also noteworthy that all of
our media product was filmed
using entirely natural lighting,
to help with the film
portraying a real environment.
The all natural lighting helped in the editing process as
we did not need to alter much to get the look we
wanted from the characters.

5. Camera angles/shots
● A lot of Irish Tommy's shots tend to be low angle, as to show
his physicality and look more intimidating, however once we
get to the phone call sequence and realise Irish Tommy is a
bit of a fool then the camera swaps to being level to his face
in a close up. The Suit only has one shot type which is a
medium close up, this was
primarily used so we could
keep his suit in shot at all
times he was on screen, but
also as to show his full upper
body. I also have to note that
the product did have a limited
number of shot types used
in the final product, and could have used a larger variety to
get out point across to the viewer, and we did not make full
use of the technology we had available for this.

6. Characterisation
● The character of Irish Tommy
plays on some of the stereotypes
present in the British Crime
genre, he is a character of lowly
intelligence and is simply used
for brute force. Irish Tommy
represents a lower class citizen
in Britain who is involved in crime, as seen by his attire
and job. In opposition with Irish Tommy is the portray of
The Suit, who is even from first glance an obviously higher
class or more sophisticated character, evident by the suit
and a general better appearance. He follows general
stereotypes for a boss style character; mysterious, short
tempered and intimidating.

7. Characterisation
● The character of Irish Tommy
plays on some of the stereotypes
present in the British Crime
genre, he is a character of lowly
intelligence and is simply used
for brute force. Irish Tommy
represents a lower class citizen
in Britain who is involved in crime, as seen by his attire
and job. In opposition with Irish Tommy is the portray of
The Suit, who is even from first glance an obviously higher
class or more sophisticated character, evident by the suit
and a general better appearance. He follows general
stereotypes for a boss style character; mysterious, short
tempered and intimidating.