The document discusses how different social groups were represented in a student film production. It includes responses from the actors who played the Little Girl, Antagonist, Mother, and Police Officer. For the Little Girl, they intended to portray her as weak and vulnerable through pink clothing, a flower in her hair, and high camera angles. The Antagonist was meant to seem frightening and mysterious through dark clothes and watching the Little Girl. The Mother's inclusion represented the stereotype of women caring for children, though the film subverted this by showing she couldn't shop and care for her daughter at once. Finally, the Police Officer aimed to seem friendly and helpful by having a real uniform and acting nicely.
Representing Social Groups in a Student Film Production
1. I can use specific examples to discuss how I
represented social group’s in my production
Response to evaluation Q2
2. Little Girl- How did you intend to represent
the social group’s in your production?
We intended to represent the little girl as weak and
vulnerable.We did that through the clothes she was
wearing for example a pink rucksack. Pink is
typically a colour for young girls and the little flower
she had in her hair.These props showed that she is
very young and that she has no experience of who
she can trust or not.This made it easy for the
Antagonist to kidnap her.The second technique we
used is the use of camera work. For example the high
angle.With this technique we tried to make the little
girl look weak and vulnerable.
Our audience feedback is not really helpful for us
because the people we asked were not successful and
said things which are not really useful.We will look
through the footage of it and we’ll try to get the best
results we can.
3. Antagonist- How did you intend to represent
the social group’s in your production?
We intended to represent the Antagonist as
frightening and mysterious.We did that
through his dark clothes.We chose for
example that he should wear dark clothes
because we thought that black is a colour
which creates coldness.Another technique
we used to make him look evil was that we
tried to show the audience that he is
watching the little girl when she was
playing in the park or when she was in the
Town Centre with her mum.
The people in our audience feedback said,
that they didn’t liked the way he kidnapped
her. In my opinion the kidnapping was
alright because we had to do it how we did
it.We don’t wanted to scare the little girl
and therefor the kidnapping is not the
scariest bit in our production.
4. Mother- How did you intend to represent the
social group’s in your production?
The inclusion of Ella‘s mother Lindsey
represents women as being looking after
their children.This very stereotypically
because normally women are looking
after their children instead of the men.
In our opening sequence we tried to
represent Lindsey in an antistereotypical
way because she isn‘t able to go shopping
and look after her child at the same time
which is unusual becuase it is said that
women are able to multitask.Through the
fact that Ella is getting lost we are
showing that she isn‘t and that makes her
a countertype.
5. Police Officer-How did you intend to represent
the social group’s in your production?
We chose that to include a real
policeman in our production because
the fact that he has a real police
uniform with all the real props
makes the storyline even more
realistic for the audience.The police
man was really friendly and he acted
really nice which represents police
officers in a positive and friendly
way in whcih they should
stereotypically act because it is said
that the the police are your friend
and helper.