Wednesday, 11 May 2011

How does your film sequence represent social groups?

In our film sequence, it represents teenagers as being independent college students because one of the characters is working part time in a cafe. Both of the teenage characters are also represented as being mature and respectful in the way that they talk. For example, when they have the conversation in the cafe, the main character addresses his costumer as " sir" and the costumer replies politely as well. Also, the plot for our opening sequence can be regarded as controversial for some people, so it represents the target audience ( teenagers) as being people who want to try new things and broaden their horizons. Also, the plot is kind of ambigious because it doesn't really comfirm if the stalker is in love with the main character or if he simply wants to kill him. This might appeal teenagers because it allows them to interpret the story themselves.
When it comes to the costume, our protagonist is wearing normal, casual clothes and a bag whereas the antagonist is wearing black from head to toe, a hat and doesn't have anything with him. In films, the antagonist typically wears black clothing whereas the protagonist wears normal clothes. Our opening sequence represents the teenagers as people who are fearful of their sexuality and expressing feelings towards each other and girls.               Watching this, viewers might feel like this could relate to them and they might start to question things or they might become paranoid if a stranger approaches them . Our film goes against stereotypes because instead of a white female and a white male, the two leads are black teenage boys and you don't really see that very often in films. The message we're giving by the casting choice is that anyone can

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