Evaluation Task 2 : How does your product represent particular social groups?

13/02/15

Evaluation Task 2 

Q: How does your product represent particular social groups?

For our thriller title sequence we only needed one person to act for our character which was a GB team gymnast with psychological problems, stopping her from performing. Our character represented a positive representation of a typical white teenage 17yr old girl where physically she is fit and healthy on the outside, due to her competitive sport, but emotionally and on the inside, she has psychological problems which is a topic that teenage female audiences are likely to strongly relate to.

In order to allow the audience to understand the character visually, at the beginning of the thriller during her warm up she wears a GB tracksuit and then a  black GB gymnastics leotard to convey the level of skill of her sport while she is performing her sequences. She represents a high performance athlete due to her being in the GB team, allowing her to be a role model character towards teenage girls due to her achievements.

 

This level of sport is an accepted stereotype of how any activity which requires this amount of training is mentally challenging and comes with a high level of stress leading to emotional and mental challenges which is conveyed through our character. In the end we thought our actor Emily represented what we visually were after for our thriller sequence really well and hopefully it will show in our final finished sequence.