The document summarizes how a media product represents married couples as a social group. It does this through several scenes: a proposal scene in a restaurant that shows the couple holding hands, a honeymoon scene in a hotel room with rose petals on the bed, and a scene where the wife asks about her husband's missing wedding ring. Edits with fade-to-blacks are used to distinguish past and present and represent secrets between couples. Wedding rings and the line "where's your ring?" show the characters are married. Music conveys when the relationship is good or looking back on the bad past. Settings like the hotel room help represent the couple is on their honeymoon.

1. 2. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
The main social group we included in our film opening is
married couples.
This is shown in the proposal scene in the restaurant, the
honeymoon scene in the hotel and also in the office later where
the wife says, “Where’s your ring?”.

2. Camera:
Starting with the restaurant scene,
the fact that they are a couple soon
to be married is shown with the
medium shot of them holding of
hands .
Also the medium close up of when the
ring is placed on Lisa’s finger. This
shows the seriousness between the
couple representing the fact that any
serious relationship could end up in
marriage.
Although in this scene you cannot hear dialogue the facial
expression and body language gives away a lot about the
couple and tells the story of what is happening.

3. Editing:
With our editing we needed some way of distinguishing
between present day and the flashbacks. We did this by using
fade to blacks which represented how he was in the past and
how he is still now hiding the secret from his wife. This could
represent that however much love and commitment there is
between couples there can still be secrets. We also used these
fade to blacks on some of the titles.

4. Sound:
The main sound that conveys
the married couple is the
diegetic dialogue “where’s
your ring?” This line shows the
sudden doubt and confusion
from Lisa as to why her
husband Simon is not wearing
his wedding ring. But also
shows the fact they are
married and in love by wearing
the wedding rings.
There was also non diegetic sound which was the music used. It was in
a minor pitch which gradually went to major when things were good
and then back to minor when it looked back at the bad past or when we
wanted the audience feel in suspense and suspicion because of
Simons past.

5. Mise en Scene:
We used a hotel room
which helped to represent
that they were on a honey
moon, also the rose petals
on the bed helped to
convey a romantic feel as
roses are often used as a
symbol of desire or love.
We used wedding rings to
make sure the audience
knew that the couple were
married and in a serious
relationship.

6. We also presented the group of assassins.
I believe we did this in quite a good way as assassins don’t
want their identity to be revealed. As a newly married man
who loves his wife very much Simon doesn’t want his secret
to be revealed and by having the flash backs it shows that he
is thinking of what he’s done. When Lisa comes in and Simon
slams down the “log book” this also helps show that his real
job is a secret.