Wednesday, 21 April 2010

EVALUATION Question two - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Here are the two characters that appear in our title sequence which is the psychotic lady, played by Yasmin and the dead body which was played by myself. However, these characters had been created with the inspiration of other things such as well known movies and the characters within them.


For the character of the psychotic lady, there were a few characters from other movies which we took inspiration from to create our own unique character. One of them was the Hannibal Lector who is also a cannibal in the film. The way he is portrayed in the film as a cannibalistic psychotic person is what we used in order to try and make out character as 'realistic' as we could. However, the main and most obvious difference between the two characters is the fact that our character is a woman rather than a man which breaks the norm of cannibals in films as the main roles for women in thriller movies is the 'bunny boiler'. A classic example of this is Alex Forrest from the thriller called "Fatal Attraction'. (images left to right: Hannibal Lector and Alex Forrest)


The second main character in the title sequence is the dead body. However, there was no character from another film in which we aspired to as there was no particular characteristic that had to be portrayed apart from the fact that the character is dead.

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