Evaluation (Part 5) - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my opening sequence, we represented different social groups through camera, angle, shots movement and position, editing, sound, mise-en-scene, expressionism and typography.

The main focus of our rep was teenagers who have been unjust.We wanted to get the message across that the stereotype of some teenagers in Britain are not always nothing but trouble and sometimes they find themselves in situations which was not their fault or they could not control and why we wanted to appeal to teenagers and young adults in Britain and also display the reality of the mundane lifestyle in Britain for some teens.

Camera:

In this shot we decided to use a mid shot from a low angle. We used this to represent the power level and authority the undercover police has, as we are looking up towards him connoting his high level of power. We also decided to use this shot as it was the best way to introduce the agent of change as it represents how he is quick to burst into the scene carelessly to arrest the protagonist and the low shot connoted this power.

For this we used a two shot from a low angle to again connote the high power level of the undercover police as opposed the the delivery boy. We can see from the the two shot that the cop is standing tall and firm while the delivery boy in on the floor helpless which again connotes the power of police as a social group.

Here we used a high angle from a point of view perspective of the undercover police. The police is looking down at the delivery boy again displaying the low power of the delivery boy and the high power of the police and a social group. 

Editing: 

Here we used editing to represent the social groups. We did this by creating the recording graphic and added it in to the clip to connote that the protagonist is being interviewed as he had been arrested for the drugs. 

This also created verisimilitude and represented a stereotype in the current era of how youths are always getting into trouble due to the fact that we had this scene fade in (edited on mac) right after the drugs were shown to denote the protagonist getting in trouble and being interviewed.

Mise-en-scene:

Here we used the mice-en-scene to create the representation of particular social groups in the opening sequence. In the shot we can see how the character is looking around with a weary expression which could connote that he may be doing something dodgy and  or may be on the lookout for something and someone or going into unknown territory. Again this could represent the stereotype of youths in this era engaging in suspicious activity's and causing trouble and exploring new things.

Here we can see through the facial expression of the character that he is bored and just waiting for something. This represents the social groups of some young British people with the mundane lifestyle. 

Here we used mice-en-scene to represent the stereotype of youths getting involved with drugs in the modern era. We did this by having the shot of the drugs run for around 5 seconds which stuck in the audiences head.

Expressionism:

Here we can see how the lighting is very dark and dull and also the clothes the character is wearing is dark grey which is dull, which could be reflective on the representation of the character. We particularly chose these colours and lighting scheme as we wanted to display how the colours represent the dull and boring lifestyle of some youths in Britain.

Sound:

The music we used in the video was a slow, mysterious grime instrumental beat. We used this specific genre of music as grime is a common genre which is listened to in Britain and mostly among youths, which could represent how the youths in the current era listen to a lot of grime which could represent youths in this era as being mysterious and mischievous.