Question 2 - Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film follows one Teenage boy called James Green who is 17. We had chosen to use a 17 year old boy to represent the younger people because many young people would relate to teenage life and as he does through a "Journey of Reconciliation" which many would find interesting and might motivate many young people to watch the film and also focuses on the relationship between the main character and his lover who is also a teenager of the same age group. Our main character in the opening titles and throughout the film is male but we have tried to include an equal amount of both male and female characters within the movie, many are come from different classes of society (mainly the working and middle classes) who do interact like in normal society together.

The locations used within our film vary. In the opening titles we shot in several locations. these locations are located within the Derbyshire area in the UK. Tupton and Holmgate were the two locations. they are local areas for us to access. Tupton which is a village as is holmgate which we found to be closely linked to the teenage community because they are a peaceful area where many thrive and live together and where there are many spots where teenagers hang out. This is our Mise En Scene for our film to show a peaceful place where many teenagers go and is considered a stereotype for a thriller which involves murder. The park in holmgate is one place where many teenagers go to socialise and to get away from today's society. The locations that we chose were chosen to show the representation of this character. The character is alone at each location to show that in this vast area which is normally populated is alone. This builds up the character himself to the audience.
Our film uses an enigma code throughout with the mysterious killer. This can be a character which the audience may question about.

The clothing for the character is casual clothe wear  for many in today's standards.

 We are using no stereotypes as our film focuses on deeper matters which builds up the film as a whole. Many people can relate to teen stereotypes because of clothing for example many teens wear hoodies because they feel comfortable, but they are discriminated and mocked by the older generation because of this. In actuality younger people wear more casual clothing, such as our character.



We have used a range of shots throughout the opening to represent this character for example we have used close up shots of the character to show the emotion when in the situation of choosing his life or the other life. This shows the emotional struggle of the character. We also used editing to represent this character as the transition of shots and the duration of each clip is quick to show the pace of the film and the emotional struggle of the character.



Kenning park - Holmgate. - The park was a peaceful place for us to film where the teen is being stalked by the unknown antagonist whom could be closely related to James Green. This adds to the stereotype for teens.

Tupton Bridge is another location. Located at the bottom of New Station road in Old Tupton. A casual spot for walkers and people who are keen of Trains. I felt this was an appropriate location for the audience to question why our main character is there.