Monday, 14 December 2009

14/12/09 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The representations that our media product shows social groups such as highly trained assassin with a murky world of semi-official government business. The assassins social class is different from the police chief as the assassin is highly trained and skilled that has had possible military training and also maybe a government official killer/exterminator. But the police chief is different as he is is having a crisis with the weapons dealer and hires the assassin as he has more power than the police chief. The weapons dealer is almost powerless in his social group when the hit man has his sniper on him but he seems to have wealth and power at the start as he has guards and weapons. 

The weapons dealer when you first see him on screen has a dominant role with his guards as he walks past them and they make way for him and that may show that in his type of social group he has the power as he overcomes two guards with guns. The dog that was used also shows the aggressiveness of the two guards. The mise en scene that we used factors in certain social groups as for costume we had guards with these leather jackets and the props they had was a big dog and guns and this merges with the fact they are young guys trying to big and tough with what they are wearing and what they are using to portray a sense of power. 

The shots that we used with the close up of the Hit mans face to keep his identity unknown from the audience has a secondary function as it also fits into the social group of a shadowy criminal group as he is partly visible.