Media Evaluation - Part 5

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Within our product, we had a main social group which was represented through the whole title sequence...

Stereotype:
The bases of your title sequence started around the idea of the typical stereotype of a young boy. The idea of coming home from school, throwing the coat and bag down on the floor, going to the fridge to grab something to eat from after school and then following the idea of going upstairs to the bedroom the relax after the day. This typical stereotype we doesn’t to break for the film opening as this was one of the ways in which we wanted the audience to understand that this child may act like an average young boy, however he is very different due the change when entering his room.

Props:
The props in which we used for the title sequence also related to the social group of young children due to the use of teddy bears and colourful drawings. We used child-like props that we felt would normally be used by a child to play and look after, instead the child in the sequence does the opposite and ruins toy, showing he isn’t acting like an average child. The clothing in which the character is wearing has been chosen for particular reasons, mainly being that I felt that the boy should be wearing a school uniform with an emblem on it to show that he goes to school, connoting to the audience that he is a child, this is seen sue to the camera shot at the beginning of the sequence as when he walks into the house the camera focuses on the emblem on his top.

Ideology:
The ideology of the young boy’s character seems to be the idea in believing in something evil and hell-like. This is seen by the lighting used and the props in which are being destroyed by him.

Representation:
The representation of the young boy is shown through the whole of the title sequence in which we made due to many different aspects of the product. One of these aspects consisted of camera angles in which we used as the boys face was never shown, connoting mystery, however it also showed made the audience even more unaware of what he really looked like, including his age. The camera shot at the beginning of the sequence was a high angle shot making the child look even smaller, so from first observation the audience would think that this person is a child who the title sequence is about. The representation of this boy not being alone could come from the idea of his bedroom door opening on its own when he goes to walk in, meaning someone is in there waiting for him.

The typography used also shows the social group of young children is it contains the guidelines that are commonly used for children learning to write. The font is also quite rough looking; it isn’t neat and perfectly placed representing that this could be about a child.