Diffrence in social groups.
- 1. How are social groups represented in our opening?
- 2. Location/ setting We found where are opening was located, was a very important aspect. It is a visual method used to portray people living in lower class society, the location help audience visualise the characters surroundings. Important to choose the right location to mirror the characters, a lot of scenes were shot at Tesco shopping place, like other social realism films important to place characters in areas that are familiar to audiences. The simplicity of the surroundings really help represent the characters social class.
- 3. Characters portrayal The way the characters are portrayed can mirror their own social class background, such characters like Tay who consists in the first shots speaks in an aggressive manner and tone. This instantly creates an image of an obnoxious, loud character which can be associated with people from a lower status. Her public outrage insinuates that this might be a climax to all her anger. Situation you might not find from some one with a middle class background, this contrast is clearly shown when the young girl collides with another passer by. The mannerisms and behaviour also help represent this character in bad light, throwing a cigarette on the floor could show she has little respect for herself and her environment.
- 4. COSTUME The character Danni her costume is very relaxed could show she has very little care for self image. The use of dark colours could foreshadow the girls personality.
- 5. AGE GROUP? When it comes to distributing are film we needed to have consideration of what are target audience should be, looking at how to make the audience at home be as varied as possible. Are first consideration is how to attract the audiences looking at the age group, we all agreed that age group would be young adults we specified it to 16-20 years old. However we realised by doing this we were creating a small audience for are film, to create a wider audience we knew we all age groups from 20 over should want to see our social realism film. To entice older ages we felt that we needed to involve different characters of different ages, this will take the focus off young teens and more into the older age group. When looking at are film we agreed that the narrative was broad enough to involve all ages and even all classes, though the mise en scene appears to be aimed towards the lower class society we feel that the narrative is strong enough to attract any class at any age. Me and my group feel strongly about this as we all agreed that domestic violence can touch any person in any class of any age, when researching domestic violence we found in 12 minutes 3 women will be physically attacked by a partner. This inspired us even more to concentrate on this issue throughout the film as it could be touching many peoples lives.
- 6. Gender :As a group it was very important we felt both genders could relate and connect to the characters. By having an all female cast in the opening which was the groups original plan, we knew that this may instantly create to the public audiences that this was an all female oriented film. Therefore we realised we had the threat of losing audiences of the male gender, when considering this we knew even though the main character was one of a female, including a male character would let the males have more interaction to the film. That is the main reasons as well as creating variation why we involved the minor character Dan in the opening, who would also later appear in the film including more male characters, creating a cast of mixed genders. Dan not only allowed males to feel more included to the opening. As main character was very aggressive we felt this might make girls feel more unease about wanting to watch the film as it may be something they aren't accustomed to. Allowing to create a dislike to the character. Having the disconnection to the character, made us want to show the male characters in a more positive light breaking the sterotype of the male masculinity. The male characters being the less aggressive gender may create interest to the girls as they may want to break away from the typical traditional film, where the women are the innocent character, the man the more dominant and powerful. On the other hand the main character being so aggressive might make girls want to watch the film as they like the control and dominance the character Tay has about her, the strength she has even facing the male character Dan. Her confidence might make girls find Tay likeable and interested in her character to watch the film further.
- 7. Ethnicity Ethnicity and culture also has a massive impact on the target audience, it is vital that you include all ethnicities into the filming, broadening different cultures is important to making the film have a massive variety of audiences. In are opening we didn't include a different ethnic group, if we were to film again I believe we would as we want all different cultures to feel they can relate and understand the film. Again all ethnicities can come across the issue of domestic violence and suicide, we feel that by adding the different ethnicities we can direct the film towards them. We found that other social realism films like Bullet Boy and Fish Tank had a very vast majority of one ethnicity. Are group felt that this could easily exclude other cultures that might find interest in the British Realism side of production, however feel that the film is not aimed at them as there ethnicity is not included, Fish tank consisting of a major white British cast. We also think ethnic variation is important to a film as you can then add different cultural issues, by doing this you are opening up the minds of the audiences, having the experience of seeing cultural diversity as well as hitting on a range of issues across different societies of whatever race or culture they might live by.