Eval qu 2
- 1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
- 2. Gender Normally a female would be expected to be represented as a caring, kind, affectionate, submissive character. Often media texts stereotypically depict females as sexually alluring and dangerous or fragile and innocent. Initially the female is portrayed as not posing a threat by her non conventional clothing for a typical femme fatale. We chose pink clothing to represent our character as unconventionally wholesome, caring and affectionate. This portrayal is then proven wrong. We chose to frame her as centred in between the two males representing her as controlling them and their actions. She is also dividing the two males foreshadowing that she will cause conflict between them later on. However, later on she is shown as sexually alluring and dangerous. Later on in our films narrative our femme fatale is involved in a dalliance with the male protagonist; when she is caught her dialogue “No its not what you think” however this is what our character thought representing her as devious and underhand deceiving her lover. This would position the audience to view her as a dangerous woman altering their previous view of her innocence. She is also shown as sexually dominant through the long shot of her ushering the protagonist into the office. This represent is atypical of an traditional female showing her instigating an immoral encounter. At the end the film the femme fatale is shown to be the opposite and is shown to be vulnerable through being threatened by a male, conforming to the stereotypically of
- 3. Age One of our characters was a male in their mid 50s. Typically, the audience may expect this type of age group to be represented as established in their life goals, with a family, settled and a considerate, respected member of society. Our character was portrayed as angry and discontented which was shown by him kicking other alcohol bottles over a frequent swearing. He is also shown as naive; when the femme fatale enters, we show our audience through the use of a long shot her obvious suggestive winking at the protagonist that our older character clearly fails to acknowledge. The dialogue ‘’I’m sick of this, I need a fag’’ which portrays that he is living life from cigarette to cigarette and not living life to its full potential which is common in film noir as older people are generally shown as discontented with life and need an escape from what is going on in their day to day lives. We utilised many mid shots to portray his body language as aggressive, wielding his power and authority to intimidate the younger more vulnerable protagonist. By putting his leg on the desk he is marking his territory and its his domain. Representing as a discontented and showing apathy towards his role.