How does your media product present particular social groups?

We represented gender a lot in our opening in the way that our two main characters are male. With it being a post apocalyptic film it could be seen that the male half of the human race are more versatile than the female half and, while this can be seen as sexist, it’s likely true. We do have a female character however and she is used in the memory to portray a sense of goodness or happiness not seen in the sections with the other characters. This could be seen as a way of using the female figure to emphasise nicer times and, perhaps, times before the disaster. It could also be seen on the sexual side of things in that if there were little or no females left there would be no knew children and the human race would disappear. This in and of itself could make the female half of the race allot more precious than previously thought.

We also used the clothes worn to show both the fact that it’s cold and the characters; the use of hoddies being a way of showing the antagonist. This is seen in a very stereotypical way through the fact that Joe, the antagonist, wore a black hoodie to make him seem more menacing and, although this stereotype of people in hoddies are gangsters is bad, it worked well for us to get across the idea that the character wasn’t a nice person.

Also Duncan, our protagonist, has blonde hair where as Joe had dark hair. This emphasises the idea of good and bad; light and dark and helps distinguish the two different characters from each other in the way we want them to be seen. As light often shows the side of good and dark the side of bad, it is another way to easily separate the two from each other and show our audience who was who. In this way we are also being stereotypical but using stereotyping to help our audience get the perspective we are trying to show.