Question 3 - HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

Our film represents two social groups, our protagonist being the normal everyday who may or may not be seen as the usual victim. He’s male which isn’t usually the case with stalker films, they tend to be female and they usually survive against the villain. He’d be classed as working class to the audience and his age could place him as one of the most vulnerable because he wouldn’t be able to protect himself against an attack. He looks like just like a average person so determining what region he’s from would be difficult and there’s no talking in the film. He seems like the kind of guy that could quite easily be pushed over if it came to it so in my opinion there was no better actor for the role as we don’t have to make people believe that he can be bullied like if it was a tall strong person. Our stalker on the other hand you barely see but he’s clearly a person with mental problems as he’s trying to destroy this persons life by kidnapping him. You see he wears tracksuits and typically chavs wear them so you get a rough idea of his class from that. But just like Eden Lake you wouldn’t expect youths to behind all of this so for one to stalk and kidnap our protagonist is a bit shocking. Apart from that the only other thing you can see about him is that he towers over our protagonist showing his power over him and making our story a bit more believable. As it’s a thriller the tracking shot was popular within our film showing a 180 degree of the protagonists POV, but would also turn around and look at the camera showing how scared he is. Close-ups were another big one as you can really see the panic on his face as he gets more weary of the presence around him, we would film within the Social bubble of Edward t. Hall’s personal bubble graph as this allowed us to captured the whole face and also some body movement when he would turn around to make sure. The stalker’s POV is used when he’s standing behind the tree, this was to show the stalkers first presence and also the distance at first between the protagonist and the stalker. The colours we chose were all dark like black and dark browns, this is because it’s not a happy film everything that happens is quite dark with the kidnapping so the colour scheme should match that. The colours also make the characters stand out with the light early morning setting that we had decided to shoot in.