How does your media productrepresent particular social

groups?

G e o r g i e R o b b i n s

A social group is a group of people who canbe generalised based on a variety of

interests that they hold in common witheach other. They combine to form a certaindemographic and are similar to a target

group except it refers to how you representthem, not target them.

The representation that we included of a fiancé was inspired by Nicolas Cage in Face Off.This is because he also has a solid family life with his partner and also his son. This stable

secure-base is corrupted by his promiscuous ways from being with other women. Thisconnects to our character of the male fiancé of whom also has a secure-base of his newfiancé/girlfriend. He also ruins this relationship by secretly having an affair with hisfiancé's best friend. The black clothing and secretive, seductive ways bind the two

characters together.

We are representing a social group of adulterers with this character. This linksto the character of Castor Troy as he also cheats on his girlfriend anc comes

across as a villain.

In terms of mise en scene, we took inspiration from the blackclothing that Nicholas Cage wears; we felt it created a senseof mystery as it gives no personality to the character andconnotes villainous ways. Black is a plain colour which

everyone wears, therefore, indicating no sense ofpersonality at all.

From the film Face Off, we learned that we must present ourunfaithful fiance as secretive and cruel. We learned to portray him astwo-faced and as carrying out secretive acts behind the scenes. He

ends up hurting everyone he 'cares' about.

The narrative similarities between our character and Castor Troy include thefact that they both have a secure relationship in place with Castor's

girlfriend and son and with our characters' fiance but still fail to accept thisand live happily; they both cheat and go from woman to woman.

A lot of long shots are used on both of these characterswhich forces them to dominate the screen; this

connotes power and authority. The whole body occurs alot to emphasize the power these two characters hold

over the women.

Our inspiration for our Mistress was from Glenn Close's character AlexForrest. She is a psycho of whom desires to kill her lovers family so thatshe can have him for herself. This directly connects to the vicious ways ofour own mistress who also utilizes a knife. Our own mistress plans to killthe unfaithful fiance's wife alike to 'Alex' plotting to kill her lovers family;

the two characters bond by their personality traits.

This character represents a social group of mistresses and adultery. Italso relates the Fatal Attraction as the social group of a mistress is

shown in this too.

In terms of mise en scene, Alex from Fatal Attraction dresses in aprovocative way alike to our own mistress. We decided it would be fitting to

dress our own mistress in tight, revealing clothing to emphasize herpersonality traits. the location of a house and domestic environment links

to ours and inspired us to place abnormal action in a normal setting.

From the film Fatal Attraction, we learned that our mistress must besweetness and light on the front but deeper she is vicious and seeks formore. A psycho side comes out in Glenn Close's character alike to our

mistress at the end of our opening when the knife scene occurs and thefront personality is wiped away and displaced by a trait of anger and

aggressiveness.

The narrative similarities between these include to psycho nature of the characters!

Both characters plot to kill someone involved with their secret partner and a knife isinvolved with both of them.

In terms of cinematography, a lot of low angles are used on these two intertwined characters to connote asense of power and dominance. They are often shown head on to give an innocent sense when they're in theirnormal 'alter-ego' and close ups occur to showcase their vicous thought processes. An example of this is in

the conversation in the kitchen of our own thriller whereby the mistress is shown from straight angleswhich connote neither power or vulnerability; this causes mystery and forces the audience to wonder whattype of personality she had. This is identical in Fatal Attraction as we wonder what personality she has

before it all comes out at once in the psycho stage.

For our inspiration for the fiance thriller opening, we took the bride from kill bill intoaccount. The fact that her outfit and intentions were to marry link in with the fact thatour female fiance was also intending to marry and was proposed to. Furthermore, the

whole of Kill Bill is based around the revenge of the bride; this connects to the end of ourthriller when the fiance is still alive and the rest of the film would be based on her

revenge.

This character represents a social group of scorned women. This social groupalso relates to Kill Bill as the bride is also scorned.

In terms of mise en scene, we decided to use a natural and normal style forthe wife as it shows that the scorned woman is a usual person which fits

into the concept of thrillers containing normal people,

From the film kill bll, we learned to present the 'finace' as vulnerable andweak. The high angles used were replicated in our own film to force a trait ofweakness onto the scorned woman and her innocent ways are shown through

her kind facial expressions and dialogue used.

The narrative similarities of the two film involve the revenge aspect. Thewhole of kill bill is based around the revenge of the wife and at the end of our

opening, the scorned woman wakes up; the rest of the film would also bebased around her revenge. Both characters have been scorned by a man and

both have been almost killed.

In terms of cinematography, high angles are used frequently on these characters and , atthe end of ours, there is an identical shot whereby an aerial is used on the 'dead' body of

the scorned woman. This matches with the screenshots below!