Thursday, 25 April 2013

Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?


My film focuses on the older teen/ middle age generation as the main protagonist is only aged around early twenties. I feel that my film highly focuses on upper/middle class as the protagonist is dressed well and smart, implying that he has a very well paid job. For this role I cast myself to play it as I needed to male role to look in his early twenties but have an illusion that he looks tired around the eyes which are heavily drained from all the hard work he does at his job. I did originally plan to have a female dead body on the bed but had to recast for the final product. I had to think fast to which I used the camera man, Philip Creasey, to stick his hand out of the wardrobe to create the effect that the protagonist had shoved the dead body (which had been dragged through the house) into the wardrobe. The original cast for this was to have Jessica Gaunt play the female roles has her figure seems to attract boys attention which would be well suited as the protagonist would have seen her and immediately have her in his grasps. Her appearance is a modern teenager and the slutty type as her appearance would make out that she had been with hundreds of males with the main protagonist just a simple sex buddy.

I then cast Bobby Gosling as the protagonists friend and business partner as I needed him to look smart and a little younger as I planned out he was a trainee to the protagonist and was going round in the morning to go back to work. Bobby also looks smart naturally which just by that positive made me go for him over anyone else. With Bobby being smart, he also has a spindly look about him making him look fragile which was the perfect opportunity for the protagonist when possessed to strike. The social group Bobby's character represent is upper clase being the 'nerd' stereotype. 

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