2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

My film focuses on the younger generation/young adults, but it can also interest people of the older generation/middle aged adults. But it was mainly focused on the younger generation. Personally i believe that my film doesn't really focus on a social group in particular but if i were to chose i would say it would represent the working class. Kourtney Haw was cast for the role of the protagonist this was because my group and I had a picture of what we wanted "The Girl" took look like, outrageous in body and mind with hair that looks mental she fit the role perfectly as she is able to act this character well. I knew this because i have seen her play this role and many others in many of her shows for KYT and other theatre groups. This meant the Kourtney was able to represent the character really well, and relate back to the audience that would watch as the understand how to get across to the audience in more ways than one. When it came to the man in the trench coat, as a group we decided that Ollie Arid would be the best at this character, not only would it be easier for us as he was in the group but he is also a A-level theatre student and is very good at acting different roles. He dressed in a black coat with a trilby hat, this made sure that the camera didn't really show a lot of his face so the character he played wasn't given away to much. Originally, there were many characters involved in the opening sequence including, a clown, a nun, two children from the 1940's period as well as "The Girl", "The man" and the person who chases the girl. After the first filming we decided that the earlier characters didn't fit into our final edit, so they are in their briefly but not as much as our original storyboard suggested. The reason we changed the original edited to the final edit was because when we first asked for feedback people didn't really understand what was going on, and they also stated that was very slow. That was when we thought, as a group, that we should make the pace speed up after the setting had been set. This is when the chase seen was added in with the man in a balaclava, Jon Orrell was cast for this character, as the characters face wasn't being seen this meant it didn't really matter who it was. Also Jon is a very healthy person so was able to run for quite a while. His body structure is very built which made the character a lot more interesting and scary as it made him seem like he was the "hitman" for "The man" so it worked out well. As all the actors/actresses were aged between 16-17-18 it allows the audience of the "yonger generation" feel connected to them as they would be around the same age. If i had to give the opening sequence an specific age i would give it a 15 due to the contents although there isn't much in the opening sequence the rest of the film would contiain a lot more violence.