Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Question 2

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?



My film opening represented our secondary target audience of females from the age of 12 - 25 who were the usual viewers of fantasy films, because of the female protagonist used.
To replicate the genre correctly and then thus the social group of our target audiences, we used detail in location and costume to give the opening to the film verisimilitude, in this the mise-en-scene of the film was built up for instance the location we used was the most similar to the look of the Hobbit Location that we were able to achieve, and the costumes were as Fantasy like as we could make them.
Our film does represent other social groups through the characters we used in opening as we used females and males, along with a female protagonist, thus we represented both male and female. Within this mix some characters represent other social groups.
Anidone -the protagonist, would be stereotypical of other characters like her from other fantasy genres such as Arwen who gives up family and immortality in order to save Middle-earth from the threat of Sauron along with Galadriel, the elf queen who singlehandedly wields power over Lothlorien in the Lord of the Rings however much less developed the hope for our character would be that she would also be representative of a strong female character, this is momentarily seen through
the explanation of the narration also the look of the protagonist was representative through the costume.
This can be seen here in this comparison of costume, obviously the costume I made for this character isn’t as professional, however it was the best to my ability.




This is also a positive representation on women has a whole as the character isn’t portrayed in negative light.
The next character in the opening is our pixie like character Phex.




As a female character she too represents women, however because this character isn’t necessarily human, it can’t fully represent social group, this is the same for all the other characters. That aside the character Phex is stereotypical to pixie characters, this stereotype of mischievous and ditsy is applied, subsequently projecting it onto the wider group of females, which conveys a harsher sense of representativeness. Thankfully this isn’t disclosed fully in the opening.
Following the Phex character we are joined by Trehsarck,
This is also a stereotypical character for a warrior as this character is depicted as a strong male. We wanted him to be a typical warrior that would be comparable of characters from the TV program the Last Kingdom, some are shown below:


This appeals to our male target audience.  It also appeals to an ethnically diverse audience along with representing them.


Agor is also a warrior like character however this time they are a beast as well, seeing as this is anthropomorphic and not human, therefore it is not representative of any social group. This too goes for our last character Zosil, it’s creature like personality doesn’t fit in to any social group known. However both are representative of characters like them in fantasy films, for instance inspiration came from the Beast character in the live action version of Beauty and the Beast, he can be seen here:


A similar comparison can be made between Zosil and Gollum from Lord of the Rings


Our film opening also represents class as other characters arise to join the protagonist who will lead them in an army, and the leader is depicted as being regal with others below her following, this could be interpreted as classism as the leader isn’t one of a lower class.
However our film opening does not include representation of other social groups. For example sexuality isn’t being represented directly -as the audience are yet unaware of the character’s sexuality. Thus it may not attract a full wider audience.
Region and Nationality is also allusive as the viewer is not informed by the region the characters come from but are able to guess from their ethnicity. However the voiceover gives indication to a region with the accent used, this is representative of our target audience since other fantasy films use similar male accents to narrate.
Lastly it is not fully representative of our target audience or a wider social group as the age range of characters isn’t wide. To be fully representative some characters would have to be of different ages, it would also have to include characters in their 20s to further represent our target audience. This however may not be the biggest problem as our characters defy age in their roles.

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