2. Who is the main social group?
 Our particular social group
consists of metal heads, two
main characters, Bjorn and
Olav. We draw on well
known stereotypes. This
would draw people from the
heavy metal community to
the characters they would
relate to.
 Our social group belongs to
the world of musicians and
rock stars. This means living
the high life, crazy public
stunts and generally unruly
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behaviour. Our
mockumentary includes a
sequence that features Olav Yevewenwargen
drinking, vomiting, falling
over and a random attack
on a passer by.

3. There is a long tradition of musicians
featuring in documentary films, providing a
whole range of stereotypes:
• Spinal Tap
• The Great Rock N’ Roll Swindle
• Walk the Line
• Gimme Shelter
• Heavy Metal Parking Lot
• A Tribute to Jim Morrison and The Doors
• Don’t Look Back
• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
• No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
These documentaries all feature famous Moral panic heavy metal has long been a source of
bands stereotypes representing controversy and counter-
culture. Social critics analysed the social reactions
to metal music especially the moral panics of the
genre. Extreme music has been cited as inducing
extreme reactions, e.g. as outlined in “I’d sell you
suicide: pop music and moral panic in the age of
Marilyn Manson” Robert Wright, 2000

4.  Moral panic heavy metal has long
been a source of stereotypes
representing controversy and
counter-culture.
 Social critics analysed the social
reactions to metal music
especially the moral panics of the
genre. Extreme music has been
cited as inducing extreme
reactions, e.g. as outlined in “I’d
sell you suicide: pop music and
moral panic in the age of Marilyn ‘Heavy metal: the dangers, the
Manson” Robert Wright, 2000.
bad hair, the decadence, the poor
grammar, that threatens to
topple a nation.’

5.  We also use stereotyped representations of
interviewers.
 Although the interviewer in our film is never
seen, we examined some real life people who
specialise in interviewing musicians- people like
Alex Baker from Kerrang magazine and Pete
Paphides- The Times rock critic.
 We made our interviewer very articulate in his
interviewing and treating both Olav and Bjorn
with the reverence only a fan can have. This
immediately conflicts with the attitude of the two
rock stars, who go against almost every
convention and protocol of interviewing by
being surly, uncooperative and monosyllabic.
Alex Baker

6.  The characters of the two musicians are
based on the appearances and attitudes
that come from stereotypes of rock stars
as well as drawing on some actual rock
stars behaviour.
 These stereotypes include long hair, dark
colours, masculinity, aggression, violent
lyrics and disturbing imagery.
 Scandinavia is also the birthplace of Lemmy
several sub-genres of Heavy Metal namely
melodic death metal so we felt this would
be a good country of origin for the
characters. It also allowed us to draw
some comedy from our voices as
Scandinavian accents can be made to
sound quite silly and entertaining.
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