How does your media product represent particular social groups AFTER

1. HOW DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT
REPRESENT
PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?
EmmaL. Bentley

2. A social group is a group of people who can be generalised in
groups because they interact with each other, and are aware
that they have something in common.
Social groups can be defined by:
Age
Gender
Sexuality/Nationality
Hobbies etc
Social Groups

3. In Our Opening, We Represented Three Different
Social Groups
Mistress Wronged Woman
Fiancée
Representation of Social Groups

4. Mistress
Character traits: Revenge, Evil, Sneaky, Sly,
Promiscuous.
In our film,we represented the social group of
mistresses.
Our mistress is very sly and acts two-faced towards
her best friend. At first, she seems talkative and kind,
even though she has been going behind her friend's
back with her new fiancee.
We dressed her in promiscuous clothes throughout,
such as crop tops, and revealing dresses, and that
helped portray her character and her social group.

5. We took our inspiration from Glenn Close from the film
Fatal Attraction. She is a psychopath who tries to kill
her 'boyfriend's' family so that she can be with him,
instead of his actual family. She also dresses quite
promiscuously to allure the man, and create a strong
character identity. From the original film, I learnt that a
mistress needs to be fierce and sly, and in this case, the
more promiscuous and the more exaggerated the acting,
the better.
Here is who we've used as our inspiration.
These two shots are almost identical,
however our mistress doesn't yet have a
knife in her hand, she picks it up off the
chopping board. We liked the idea of the
unveiling of the woman to be evil out of
the blue, which represents the revealing
of the social group.

6. Wronged Woman
Character Traits: Unsuspecting,
Innocent, Ordinary,
Upset, Hysterical, Shock, Powerless.
In our film opening,we felt it
important to represent the social
group of wronged/cheated on women.
Our wronged woman is very average
and polite. She is convinced that she
is in love, and is desperate to tell her
best friend her engagement news.
We dressed this character in everyday clothes to represent her social
group. A wronged woman is often very normal and in a happy
relationship, or so she thinks.

7. We took our inspiration from Uma Thurman who starred in 'Kill Bill'. She
was attacked because she was in love, so too was our wronged woman.
There is a sound when Uma is shot which I really loved because it
certainly frightened the viewer and represented the thriller genre by
adhering to several conventions. Therefore, when editing, I found a
similar sound and added it to the end.
I have noticed that in the murder scene, we have lots of narrative
similarities. Uma Thurman was wearing a wedding dress, however we
wanted to stick with our social group stereotype, but still use the blood in
the background to emphasize what has happened. From the original film,
I learnt that the woman needs to adhere to stereotypical social groups to
give more of an impact and add more to the overall tone of the film.

8. Mise En Scene
Throughout the opening, we took Mise En Scene into careful
consideration. We looked at other openings, and looked at the
placement of characters, and the lighting. The wronged
woman and the unfaithful man are walking together, and
the wronged woman's face is lit up so that we can see her
expression.

9. Mise En Scene
We looked at the interaction
between the mistress from 'Fatal
Attraction' and her lover. I wanted
to create the same feelings of
intimacy between them both in
our own opening.
To the right, you can see that when I
framed the photo, I had the photo
above in mind. I love how they are
both starring into each other's eyes.
The two films have narrative
similarities which are clear when you
see both films.

10. Unfaithful Finacée
Character Traits: Unfaithful, Sneaky, Attractive,
Alluring, Romantic, Charming.
In our opening, we wanted to represent the
controversial social group of unfaithful men. We felt
it important to portray our character in a way that
our audience could easily associate with the
controversial social group.
Our unfaithful fiancée is very charming and
attractive. We see him propose to one woman, but
then in the flashbacks he brings flowers to and then
kisses another woman.

11. For the unfaithful man, we took our inspiration from Castor Troy-Nicolas
Cage, from 'Face Off'. After they swapped faces, he cheats on his own
girlfriend with his 'other' face's wife. Evidently we don't have any clear
narrative similarities, however there are aspects where we took inspiration
from the film. The audience get to see the whole picture and understand
what he is doing, whereas the wife has no clue. We tried to apply this to our
own opening so that the audience knew what was going to happen by seeing
him with both women, which added suspense and angst.
We thought about what happens in the real-world with our social group,
and decided that in a lot of the cases, the man doesn't get punished. The
man usually gets away with it, and we believed it best to remove him
from the last part of the opening. We also wanted him to appear very
charming and be associated with being a 'ladies' man'. After watching
the original film, I have learnt that the man can also be sly and cunning.
Face Off The Mistress