EVALUATION: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?


Representation:

• Refers to the construction in any medium
• Includes aspects of reality such as people, writing, objects or events
• Representations may be in speech or writing
• Representations refers to the key markets of identity eg. Class, age, gender and ethnicity

In our thriller 'Affliction of Memory' we have gone under the representation of color by using a sepia effect. 

We have turned these normal shots into old looking ones which relate to our thriller. Parts which doesn't have a sepia effect is the scenes only by the mother. 

Social groups has been defined as two or more people sharing some social relation. These people share some similiar characteristics. These members of people are considered as a unit. 

Our group has limited variation in terms of social representation in our film. We only had two social groups, a single mother and a child being represented. 

Our first social group, the child was slightly influenced by the girl in the movie 'The orphan'. In Orphan the film is perversed in representing the girl as evil however we wanted ours to be represented as freaky yet innocent. Because she is a dead child we also wanted her to have a hidden identity. 

This shot has similarities and differences between them as we wanted our character to be mysterious, freaky yet innocent. Both characters have fixed expressions to show something about the character, what they are hiding and how they are feeling. The shot of the orphan child however has a more stern serious look whereas the shot of the child in our film has a more calmer look and there is a hint of a smile there. With the Orphan child you can get the impression that she is slightly evil but with our child you get a sense of innocence.

These shots have similarities in terms of mise en scene. Both characters are wearing white clothing though our character has blood stain on their outfit. They are both also standing in the same position, behind another individual. The body language of the orphan child shows that she is about to do something evil and the way she is looking at the child sleeping suggests that something she is about to do is not right. our character is standing behind her mother. Her body language is just relaxed and confident as if she wants her mother to turn around to see her. There is no source of evilness through this image. The only difference with these two shots is the setting scene. Our scene is set in the park and both characters are standing beside trees and it is clear the setting scene in the orphan is the bedroom.

In terms of the single mother, our choice of props such as the use of cigarettes and alcohol has portrayed single mothers negatively. It shows the single mother having no control and being vulnerable. We did shots of the single mother smoking, drinking and looking stressed. On a positive side this is something people would see on their screens. I think we represented her in reality of any parent deeply upset over their dead child.