Evalutation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

         Our media sequence represents the typical working man who goes to work on a daily basis except with a twist as our sequence shows an ordinary looking man with a dark secret. This idea initiated from the opening of The Stepfather 2009 film which is about a man who repeatedly remarries women who are single mothers with children and then kills them and repeats the cycle again, he changes his physical identity in order to be discreet.

Here the antagonist is dressed like a normal, average man in what looks like casual clothing, similar to the antagonist in our opening sequence except he is wearing a blazer therefore more formally dressed than this antagonist in The Stepfather. Some may say that that antagonist in our opening sequence presents himself in a high status category as he is wearing a blazer and is carrying a briefcase. The antagonist in The Stepfather has an upright posture and is presents himself neatly and appropriately- we have used this idea in the beginning of our opening sequence when the camera pans upwards from the antagonist's feet to his shoulders slowly in which we can see he is also neatly and appropriately presented carrying a briefcase.

Here, the screen shot on the left hand side shows the serial killer from The Stepfather switching on the radio to a calm Christmas song (Silent Night). We used this idea in our opening sequence as seen in the shot on the right hand side- a calm piano sound is played at this moment, similar to that in The Stepfather. In both the screen shots the serial killers are looking fairly 'normal' representing average looking men and the key prop used is the radio in both these shots.

Similarly in both these shots (the left hand side shot taken from the opening sequence of The Stepfather) blood is dripping from one side of their face. However, they are both representing different contexts, i.e. the serial killer from The Stepfather has cut himself while shaving, whereas in the shot on the right hand side taken from our media opening sequence it shows the serial killer purposley smearing blood on one side of his face. Overall, the serial killer in The Stepfather represents the typical daily average male, whereas the serial killer in our media sequence is showing the complete opposite in the right-hand shot.