2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS? 

Evaluation question 2

• Our film opening probably won't touch upon the ideas of race and sexuality but the film will touch upon gender as they're male and female characters in the movie. The age of characters will tend to be young, most likely in their 20s. The character of the private detective will likely be middle class whilst the woman could be middle or upper class.
• Due to the late 1950s setting, women did not have as many rights as men did. Most laws that supported woman equality came during the 1960s and 1970s. This issue will probably be touched upon in the movie but it won't be a major part of the movie. Also, because our main female character is only really in the opening, it won't portray her in a stereotypical "damsel in distress". In fact, a male is the one who needs being found and rescued. Stereotypes won't be present in our film opening but it will perhaps touch upon the issues of gender inequality during the mid 20th century. However, it doe

I also created a  Pinterest that helped us give some ideas on the setting and types of characters that were going to be eventually used in the movie.

 HERE IS MY PINTEREST :   http://www.pinterest.com/olliemacnaughto/boards/




 We devised a detective who is a stereotypical 1950s Detective. Here is the main character of our movie Clyde Bogart. When thinking about how to display the character of Bogart, I immediately drew inspiration from the character of Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) from Roman Polanski’s 1974 film Chinatown. I drew a lot of inspiration from Gittes in terms of the style of our characters. Bogart is meant to be a strong representation of the archetype of noir/neo noir style crime films. He's a fairly self-indulgent and cynical "private eye" who doesn't care about anybody other than himself. Gittes is a very similar character as well. He doesn't like what he's doing and doesn't care too much about the contacts that provide him with these cases. However, both are willing to take their respective jobs if the price they are paid is high enough.  Whilst Gittes and Bogart are from slightly different time period (Chinatown takes place in the late 1930s and Lights out takes place in the late 1950s), they display a similar dress sense including a 1950s Trilby hat as well as wearing suits to perhaps make them look smart. Their roles in the film are similar as they’re both the main characters, although they are both are of different nationalities with Bogart being British and Gittes being American. Despite being uncaring, they are willing to be rebels and go places where most detectives wouldn't normally step foot on e.g. both characters break into places with great importance.