The document discusses how the media product represents different social groups through various filmmaking techniques. Specifically, it aimed to create accurate representations of males in positions of power through costumes and camera angles, as well as traditional representations of soldiers and detectives through mise-en-scene. Editing techniques like filters and flashes were used to represent killers as mysterious and detectives piecing together clues.

1. How does your media product represent particular social groups Peter Gatling Evaluation

2. In the research stage we sent out a questionnaire to our target audience so that we were able to create a film opening accurate to what the audience wanted to see Screen shot from blog By doing this we felt that we were able to create an accurate representation of what the audience wanted to see without making the opening to predictable Screen shot from Hammer

3. By paying close attention to the mis en scene of costumes we were able to create an accurate traditional representation males with the detective character. The suit connotes this character to be in a high position of power in the modern western world Also by putting a lot of effort into the mis en scene of the murderer/army character we were able to create a accurate representation of a traditional male, defending his country and returning home to a loving family, or so our character thought… Mis En Scene….

4. Camera… By using camera shorts such as, low angles we were able to support the representations that we had connoted from the use of our mis en scene. As you can see here the low angle shot is supportive of our mis en scene suggesting that the character is in a high position of power And by choosing not to show the murderers face we were able to follow the traditional conventions of killers, not knowing who they are therefore making them appear more intimidating

5. Editing… By carefully editing our media product we were able to create representations for certain characters By creating a dark haze filter on the first scene involving the murder we were able to follow the conventional representations of killers, making them mysterious. Therefore representing males in negative forms such as violent By using white flashes we were able to create the appearance of detectives in at the crime seen looking through the evidence and then painting a mental picture of the situation the happened. Connoting the typical representation of detectives in crime films