EVALUATION QUESTION 2How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Both characters are of similar height and build, and they are both wearing grey jumpers.

In both films, they are young outcasts who are trying to escape the superior, majority group. For example, ‘John Smith’ from ‘I am Number Four’ moves to a new school and doesn’t have many friends whilst simultaneously trying to prevent himself from being caught by people from his ‘original planet’. Similarly, ‘Tony’ from our opening is attempting to escape the capture of ‘the government.’

The differences between the characters is that this one has supernatural powers to defend himself against the majority.

We chose George to play the character of ‘Tony’ as we believe he looks most like what we pictured a minority character to look like, and we used influences from other films (For example ‘I am Number Four.’

We made one of our members of ‘government’ appear to have higher authority as he is seen sitting down and has other people working for him. We made sure the mise-en-scene was empty of anything related to school as that is where we filmed. We also made the area dark, to make it clear to the audience the difference between the two areas in which we filmed. When filming the government character walking, we did it hand held so it wasn’t as steady as the rest of the film to increase the tension.

The similarities between these characters are that they are both wearing dark suits to assert their authority and are both older than the main character, again making them more intimidating.

Their roles in the film are similar as they both are trying to track down a minority group. (In ours, they are tracking down Tony and in ‘Divergent’ they are tracking down Divergent’s.)

THEORIESBarthes’ theory of Semiotics includes The Hermeneutic Code (when clues are dropped throughout the film to help create mystery) which we have aimed to do by not giving all the answers away straight away. For example, leaving clues such as Tony missing ‘Barcode Checks’, hopefully leaving the audience wondering what they are and what this means

Another aspect to his theory is The Enigma Code (the audience is left guessing what’s going to happen next) which again we aimed to create through our opening by not giving everything away straight away. The audience may be left asking: Why is packing his bags? Where is he going? Why are people after him? What’s going to happen to him?

We also aimed to include Stuart Hall’s theory of Encoding/Decoding (encode certain codes which the audience then decode) by introducing flashbacks, which the audience can then try and work out what happened, why it happened and what it will lead to.