QUESTION 2 - Rough Edit

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How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our opening sequence, gender is represented in a stereotypical way because when they walk into the bar, you notice that the men walk in before the women; this shows that they are superior to Nancy and Rita. Also when they all sit down at the table, Walter stands up and asks everyone what they want to drink, this is when Henry responds with ‘’we’ll have the usual’’. This shows dominance on Henry behalf because he answers before Rita has a chance to, it shows he’s taking charge.  I think Walter shows a sense of authority here because he’s the one who takes charge of asking/getting the drinks. However, dominance is also shown when we see a low angle of the bad guy, this shows ascendancy.

Also in our opening sequence, class is represented by how they are dressed, this shows that they are first class because the men wore suits and the women wore dresses. Class is also represented by the way the actors spoke, their facial expressions and the way they presented themselves.  Class is also shown with some of the camera shots we used like close ups,  we can see the expressions on their faces which can portray them as somewhat arrogant.

  

Age is also represented in our opening sequence; we used 17 year olds because they would be able to understand it more as it is more of a sophisticated storyline. We used mise en scene not only to show conventions of noir but to also make the actors we used look older than they really are by dressing them in suits and dresses. I also think some of the camera angles we used in our opening sequence show their class because

Race is represented in our opening sequence because we have used white British actors only. This challenges the conventions of La Noir’s because we usually see American actors only. 

Question 2 will be presented by using Glogster, this way we can easily show how each social group effected our film.