Tuesday, 21 April 2009

How does you media product present particular social groups?

My film opening sequence represents the character group of murderers in films.
In my film, like many other, the audience has an idea about who the murder is due to the picture 
of her, but there isn't actually a shot of her face, just shots of her legs and hands. This is very similar to the murderer in the film disturbia, the audience know what her looks like but it doesn't always show his face, also in both film, to begin with, the audience doesn't know anything about the murderer, why they kill people, who the people are that they are killing. 
Having the opening sequen
ce not actually show the murderer adds a lot of suspense because you can't see if it actually is the girl from the picture that is shown in the opening, you can't see any of her other than legs and hands. In the film disturbia although it does show the murderer's face when the murdering 
starts it is the same suspense
 with not knowing what is going on.
Another similarity that the murderer in my film and the murderer in Disturbia is the type of costume, although you don't see any of my character's costume apart from her trousers, both murderers where a lot of plain and simple, black c
lothing. The colour black in the costume show 
that the characters are not very nice
 and happy people, if they were wearing bright and colourful clothing it would make the audience believe that they were nice people and not the bad guys.
Although the murderers in both mine and disturbia have many similarities, they are not really anything a like, the murderer in disturbia is a middle aged man and the murderer in my film is a teenage girl.



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