Evaluation: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film we created two types of characters which represented or could be related to two different social groups for the audience to recognise. The first character that you see is the man in a hood (Harry). His surroundings are dark and enclosed which connotes the image of the villain. Also the use of the hood to cover his face puts a dark shadow covering his features, making him unrecognisable and the audience find it hard to connect with him, this helps to connote that as a dark figure he is likely to be a villain. In relation to Mise-en-scene the characters dark clothing helped to anchor the image of an antagonist.

The second character that is shown is the protagonist and all the aspects contrast with the villain so that it is easy for the audience to make the connection and to separate them as different social groups. The hero is positioned in an open road with bright natural light which give the man an almost glow with his blonde hair; also the costume is brighter which contrasts with the villain and connotes him as good.

We did not use dialogue at all during our two minute film so we could not use it to anchor the type of person a character was so we relied heavily upon the images an connotation of Mise-en-scene to show character personalities and motives.