How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As you can notice Taken and Luther are two of our main inflluences.One of our inspirations is the character Kim from Taken. She is very similar to our main character played by Christie Bagley. In Taken, Kim is the teenaged daughter of the main character played by Liam Neeson.The story is based round Liam Neeson looking for his daughter who was abducted in France. Her character is known to be attractive and young which is stereo typical portrayal of her type of character. Although she is hardly the protagonists, unlike Christie’s character, because the story isn’t based round her, she’s just adding to the storyline.

A way of letting an audience know what type of character someone is portraying is through costume. In taken the use of clothing lets the audience know that she is innocent, young and vulnerable. They have done this by putting her in clothes witch are flowery, pink and stereo-typical young and girly looking. This is also similar in our movie where Christie is wearing a black and pink running outfit with purple shoes this suggests that she is reasonably young and innocent. This is very conventional for a character like hers were they are the victim because normally their vulnerability makes them an easy target.

The main difference between Kim and Christie in our film is actually the colour of her hair; this may not seem like a big deal however conventionally victims and damsels normally have blonde hair. This colour hair connotes vanity, unintelligence and arrogance. This normally leads to them being a victim; however in taken Kim had dark hair which connotes intelligence, this means she doesn’t seem like a likely victim whereas Christie does. Something else which seems to be different between our two character is that Kim comes across as surprisingly calm compared to what you would expect if you were in this situations. Although we haven’t filmed a whole film I think we would have chosen for Christie’s character to be incredibly nervous and panicky in her induction.

The only character in the first couples of minutes we get to know know in our film is the protagonists however we are introduced to the antagonists. This means we dont find out very much about him although,you can tell thats he's not a visble antagonist to the public in the film.This is simnilar to the antagonsts in taken , they act and look normal in the film until you notice what they are up to.This is very different to the antagonists in films such as The Dark Knight Rises were you can tell they are a baddy straight away from their dark, scary costume.