CF: Evaluation; Question 2

How does you media product represent particular social groups? 

• Little major social groups are represented in our film, the antagonist (the murderer) is conveyed in a very discrete manner as little or nothing is shown about him/her or their identity.
• The only other character who is shown in our film is the murder victim, who is only shown after she has been killed. The victim’s social group is conveyed through mise-en-scene, as the white t-shirt shows how plain she is, which allegorizes how she does not belong to any specific social group. This also implies that she is almost 'neutral', and therefore innocent. This innocence was conveyed through the major contrast between her light-coloured appearence, and the colours of the murderer, the sorrounding environment and the blood (after she had been shot). These aspects are conveyed in the picture below.

• However, the reason for her murder, is that she has been shown to disobey the commandment of “Thou shall not worship any other Gods”, this is conveyed through the Devil/Evil related symbol on her wrist, which is shown through camera techniques such as the large close-up. This is almost a social group on its own, although it is far from a common one. It is represented commonly as dark, evil, weary and mysterious, which almost makes herself seem evil, although she is not the evil character. This makes the audience see the murderer’s killings as not justified, but slightly more deserved, we create this situation in order to allow the audience to build a relationship with the antagonist, which juxtaposes the persona that the character actually gives off, which is clearly an evil one, which is almost the driving force behind the entire narrative.

• Although this picture does not show it well, you can see the murderer inside the outlined red circle, this showed the antagonistic murderer to be lurking in the shadows, as if he was part of the darkness itself. This created a persona of the character, which was very mysterious and unknown, from which the audience could imply that he is an almost 'underground' character, and does not really participate in society.
• We feel that if we were to make the rest of the film, the more traditional and notorious social groups would have been recognized and represented.