The document summarizes how three social groups - friends, siblings, and government employees - are represented in the media opening. It discusses how the characters of Max and Keira represent friends, Max and his sister Rosie represent siblings, and Jennifer and the security guard represent government employees. Specific films like The Hunger Games, Casino Royale, and The Maze Runner are referenced for inspiration regarding characterization, costuming, lighting, and setting details.

1. EVALUATION 2: HOW DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT
PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?
By Olivia Jackson

2. SOCIAL GROUPS
What is a social group?
A social group is a collection of people who interact with each other and share similar
characteristics and possibly a sense of unity. AN example of a social group is
Friends
Siblings
Family's
Co-workers

3. REPRESENTING SOCIAL GROUPS IN
OUR OPENING
In our media opening, we included 3 social groups which we represented through
Max and Keira, Max and Rosie and Jennifer and the security guard. Those groups
were:
• Friends
• Siblings
• Government employees.

4. FRIENDS
In our thriller opening, our two main characters Max and Keira are friends
that have broken into the government facility together in search of an
antidote to a virus that has caused wide-spread panic and killed many
people. Their close bond as friends allows them to work more
productively in order to find the antidote.
Our characters friendship was inspired by Katniss and Gale from The
Hunger Games: Their close friendship with each other allows them
to trust one another which is particularly important in the film when
they trespass into areas where they are not supposed to be and
need to look out for each other so as not to get caught by the
authorities.

5. FRIENDS: MISE-EN-SCENE
Again, we took inspiration for Keira’s make-up and hair from The Hunger Games because the
female lead in that film is bare-faced and wears minimalist clothing when trespassing into
places in the beginning of the film to avoid being noticed or caught.
Maxes clothing and make-up was inspired by Jason Bourne's in the Bourne Identity; this is
because he is wearing dark clothing, however the clothing isn’t high quality or made
specifically for a spy showing that they have tried to be conspicuous while braking-in but
have little connection to the government. In addition, Max and Keira both have bruises on
their face, similar to Jason Bourne's cuts, showing the audience that there must have been
difficulty involved whilst braking into the building prior to where the opening of the thriller
begins.

6. FRIENDS: MISE-EN-SCENE
We used low-key lighting in the shot including Max and Keira because we thought that this would
create a more tense and sombre atmosphere. We took inspiration for this lighting from the opening of
Casino Royale because in this film, the low-key lighting provides the scene with tension and suspense
when the character of Bond has broken into the office.

7. SIBLINGS
We have featured a brother-sister relationship between Max and his
dying sister Rosie. We have done this to show the audience what his
motivation is for stealing the antidote and to provide the audience with
some background information for the character of Max in the form of a
flashback.
We were inspired to incorporate siblings into our thriller opening by films
such as The Fifth Wave; this film is based around an older sibling fighting
to find and protect her younger brother. We found that this particular
story line provided The Fifth Wave film with emotion as it gave the older
sibling an important purpose in the film which an audience could relate
to. Casey, the older sibling, is brave and very protective of her brother
and we wanted Max to have the same characteristics and love for his
sister in our thriller opening.

8. SIBLINGS
Maxes character is dressed formally which shows that he is a
replacement of the parental figure, raising questions from the
audience such as where the parents have gone and why he is
the only person looking after his terminally ill sister.
We dressed Rosie in pyjamas to make her feel younger and more
vulnerable. We were inspired to do this by Prim in the Hunger Games,
in the opening of that film, she has a nightmare and is dressed in
pyjamas, making her feel younger and more vulnerable to the
audience and we wanted to replicate this in our opening.

9. SIBLINGS
We were inspired to make the flash back scene black and
white by Casino Royale, in the flashback scenes in that
film, the black and white effect makes the scene look like
a memory. We also decided to use low key lighting in the
flashback because it makes the scene appear more sad
and emotion, adding to the content of the scene; we were
inspired to do this by the opening of Kill Bill as the
opening is filmed with little light, this fills the scene with
the emotion that the Bride has, being fear.

10. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
In our opening, the characters Jennifer and the bodyguard are both
government employees who work in the headquarters that Max and Keira
have broken into. Jennifer's character is very sly, deceiving and intelligent; she
is the person who invented the virus and the antidote that Max and Keira are
intending to steal. The body guard is a strong, devious person who protects
Jennifer and the contents of the headquarters.
We have taken inspiration from ending of ‘The Maze Runner’ for the
character of Jennifer. In the ending of that film, a government agent is
introduced called Ava Paige, she is our main inspiration for Jennifer because
the two are both scientists and believe they are doing what's right for the
world.

11. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
We used very low-key lighting in the shot with Jennifer in as
this hid her face and identity and gave the scene a very
secretive and mysterious feeling to it. We were inspired to do
this by classic thrillers, for example in Spectre, the villains
identity and face is hidden until Bond eventually meets him.
We gave Jennifer's character glasses to show she is an
intelligent person and decided to use a high-tech computer to
put the security footage on in order to make the headquarters
appear more technologically advanced in order to show that
this opening is set a few years into the future.

12. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
We decided to dress the security guard in a formal
suit to make him appear more professional and
intelligent, showing that he isn’t a simple thug who
is strong. We had this idea after seeing the villains
in Casino Royale as they are all dressed very
formally which makes them appear rich and
intelligent, giving them the ability to match the
protagonist's intelligence.