The document discusses social groups represented in the opening sequence of a film. It focuses on the portrayal of males and females. The male role depicts stereotypical traits of thriller "bad guys" - wearing black, breaking into a school armed with a baton in a confident manner. The female role represents worried and vulnerable characteristics - answering the phone repeatedly before leaving the office in a short skirt with long straight hair, acting timidly as she tries to escape. Examples from The Dark Knight Rises are provided to illustrate common stereotypes in the thriller genre.

1. Opening sequence
evaluation.
How my film opening sequence represents particular social groups.

2. Social groups.
• Social groups can be defined in quite a few ways.
• There are social groups for age, gender, sexuality, ethnic background,
class/status and race.
• Social groups are in the media in all shape and form such as in
magazines, on Television, DVD’s and newspapers. The media has a
way of stereo-typing certain social groups, sometimes it’s positive and
sometimes negative but none of it is really true.

3. Social groups I have used in my opening
sequence.
• The two social groups that I have used in my sequence are males and
females.
• There are stereo-types in thriller films that I have used in my film
which makes the film quite predictable, but it causes a lot of tension
within my opening sequence. These stereo-types are that the male
characters are mainly the bad guys in the genre of thriller and that
the females are usually used as side characters which will play the
girlfriend role or victims within the film.
• I have chosen just to do male and female social groups in my opening
sequence because it’s a simple but very effective way of getting my
films plot

4. Batman The Dark Knight Rises
• The genre of this film that I have previously looked at is action, thriller
and crime fiction. There are stereo-typical female roles used such as
actor Anne Hathaway who plays Selina Kyle and she has the role of
acting a teasing relationship in the film. This is a stereo-type in the
genre of thriller because like I said they’re usually the side characters.

5. Male role in my Thriller opening
sequence.
• The male role I have gone for is as stereo-typed, they always seem to be the bad
guys in the films and I have ensured that I have got this message across because
of the fact the male character was wearing all black and he broke into the school.
• I have made my film so that the male is in control of the situation and he comes
armed with a baton.
• The representation of the male role in the film is that they’re up to no good,
breaking into school and raising the baton through the window of the door that
the office worker is in clearly shows the male character is not ‘the good guy.’ The
way the male character dresses in all black also goes with the stereo-type that
the male is the bad guy because black is associated with darkness, bad, evil and
death.
• The male characters walks with confidence and purpose, the facial expression
that he uses ensures us that he’s not here to mess around and from a ‘bad guy’s’
point of view this can’t be a good thing.

6. Female role in the opening sequence.
• The female role in the film represents females as quite worried and
clueless people. The fact she has to answer the phone multiple times
before leaving the office she must of knew something was going on.
• The female character is wearing a short skirt suggesting she quite
vulnerable to the situation.
• The female character also has long straight hair suggesting she is very ‘lady
like’ and she takes pride in her appearance, this suggests that she wouldn’t
be very strong and in this situation not have a chance of surviving.
• The way the female acts in the opening sequence she seems quite timid
and the way she is desperately trying to make her way out of the building
ensures the viewer that she’s in trouble.