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

When trying to represent particular social groups within our sequence, we had to look at our two pivitol characters in our opening thriller sequence.

Firstly the young girl is shown to be a middle class town girl during the Second World War. This is portrayed through her period costume. As the nightgown in long, white and clean, we are able to see that our young girl is middle class. Her hair is neatly plaited and she has a blanket and a bed to sleep on.

Another fact that makes our girl middle class is the fact that she is writing, this shows that she is educated unlike many of the children during that era. She must also be rather wealthy as she has her own bomb shelter rather than a public one, in the shelter is a type writer and a large desk, and radio, these were expensive items which show that she is not working class and must come from a wealthy family.

The fact that she is an only child also helps us identify that she is middle class as her family did not need to produce workers and have children as an economic asset.

The shot of a man (whom we presume to be her father) coming through the door to the shelter makes the little girl frightened. The father is made out to be middle class as his shadow shows that he is smartly dressed with a hat on.

We wanted our little girl to be like the charater of Lucy Pensive in 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'. Lucy would be of around the same age and class as our girl. The movie was also set in world war two so Lucy seemed like a good character to base our character on.

 

Our second character was the archeologist. Although we cannot tell much about him we are able to see that he is educated, as he has a job. His clothes suggest that he is from the modern day. His clothes are clean and ironed, they are smart casual which supports the fact that he works as an archeoligist.

 

 

He is wearing a hoodie which suggests his youth as though he has just started his career, also his coat suggests that he is smart. He is holding a strong torch which also informs the audience that it is modern day

He seems to be looking for something which tells the audience that he is on a job and is not just there our of interest but needs to find something.

We based this character slightly on Indiana Jones as he seems to be looking for something. But also on a character from Jurassic Park. These seemed to have the same class and job as our charater, and allowed us to gain some information as to what this character would be like.