Evaluation 1

  Evaluation 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups 

In our opening we play very much on stereotypes to represent the social group of our choice.

Class is also a very important representation of our characters, as we made them working class, as they are more related to crime and such,  a higher class person stays away from thing such as murder, crime etc. We chose working class because it is the class that is linked to crime due the urban settings and maybe the lack of morals.

Also our characters in the short intro were young; as it's the stereotypical idea of that the younger generation are the ones who are behind all of the trouble such as drugs murderer etc.

We also chose to set one of the settings, in an underpass, as higher class people wouldn’t even come near it. As it also known as a dangerous place only younger people and homeless spent time in there.

Our main Character in the short opening is Billy, even thought he gets killed at the end. He could be related to many characters such as Freddie from skins. As he wears the baggie hoodies and the baggy jeans.

Evaluation 1

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?

In our film we have used the idea of the young teenagers now we represent them in a good way, but also in the way teens are represented in the media, and how they use them in other films such as Adulthood, Shifty etc. The aggressiveness, danger they because we thought those types of films appealed to us so we want to make a similar one. Our film is different in a way as Billy also does some skating, which in other films most likely they just stand around in crowds in corners of the streets causing trouble, however this is the part we tried to make them look better that teens are not only about trouble. However the typical way is the stabbing, which is very common in such films, knife is tool used by the teenagers, however guns etc that is more used in thriller films, and you won't see a teenager with a gun, it’s a bit rare.

Our Title font we found on the internet which really appealed to us, its called Toy soldier. It's sort of like graffiti, which matches our Urban/gangster/crime film. As all the graffiti on the walls of the under tunnel, and the skating park. This refers back to the teenagers groups that hang around and Abuse the neighbourhoods.

The opening of our film is Billy Walking to meet Pete, and gets the package, which then already right away lets the audience know that it's a film similar to all the other crime, gangster films as it involves hoodies, and by giving the package they already get it that it’s something like drugs. Then it’s a bit of urban style all the skating also shows a good side of teenagers, they do something they are passionate about.