2. Age: Age in our music video is represented in 2 different ways, we have added a normal teenager that is not a troubler maker and is a
person that is into education, we have supported the stereotype of having a victim as a positive influence, smart, well dressed, into
education.This was supported by the fact that the video I have analysed “The Ring” the girl was innocent, smart, well dressed and is
into education as she is wearing a uniform. How ever on the other hand we have a villain which is stereotypically a trouble maker and
is just going to end up doing something negative at the moment.
Regional Identity: I have seen different types of movies but I haven’t seen one that would have the location setting of Hackney, normally
movies are set in the USA or maybe its set in the city, but not specifically in hackney. I believe that hackney is really unrepresented, this
maybe because of the negative words that are spread around. However we had made our video in hackney, we wanted to challenge real
media products, we wanted to represent hackney show that yes this is how hackney looks and see how we present them. Hackney is
normally known to be all bad and gang violence, I myself as a character had subverted the stereotypes and presented myself as a
straight forward teen that is in education as I have a bag and I'm not wearing baggy cloths or hoody's.
3. Disability: There aren't many disabilities shown in horror genre types of movies, I therefore believe the are not as well
represented but there may be a reason. This is because they believe that they wont be a good role in the production. However I
have presented someone that is bit of a psycho and is presented as a normal person. If we had more props and more of a range of
resources to film with we may have included another disability into the film opening. (No disability shown in the product)
Sexuality: Sexuality isn't a big deal in our production as we didn’t want any other actors to rely on this because we know that if
we do get a couple of people we will have to ask them if they are free to come and shoot with us. This could then potentially slow
down the flow of the production. Also we wanted to subvert the stereotype of having a female in our movie because all other real
media productions normally have a female as the vulnerable one. And then you will have a lot of screaming going on and it will just
mess the atmosphere, it will get t loud and then this will make it hard to edit because we wont be able to put the music on and
adjust it to the clip. Sexuality is a great deal I hackney but it is also represented in a negative way therefore we didn’t want to
conform the stereotype from the movies and link it to our film. (same sex throughout the product) . We haven't shown
homosexual people in our video. We have took side with real media products but if we had a different storyline then we could
have included them. In our video we have included metrosexual people as they are the majority of our community.
Class and status: We have definitely conformed the stereotype of working class and middle/upper class. Normally class in a real
media products are shown by the way they dress. They will have casual cloths for a working class and a suit or smart attire for a
middle class or a upper class. We have conformed this stereotype in our video because we wanted to get the message across of
who’s who. This would then lead on to behaviour as middle/upper class people are more like be trouble makers. Also shown in
the image that someone s being escorted therefore he has a higher class and status
4. Ethnicity: By watching many different opening and seeing the characters that they present , but the one ethnicity that I
haven't seen in videos are Pakistanis and Turkish people, I believe they are not presented enough in the real media
products therefore I have brought in these to types of ethnicity. We need to
show people how they are or even give them a chance to be seen in the
community as they are not seen enough.
As you can see the representation in ethnicity is different from our video to real media
products nearly every single real media product has white ethnicity and that’s about it
we they role that are but in our film we have shown 2 ethnicities that are not present
much.
By presenting these ethnicity were bringing multiculturalism as this is what more real media products should look like,
this could then make everyone possibly which movies, because there are different ethnicities represented.
