How we chose to represent social groups
we represented social groups
in a very diverse way. In our film we have a terrorist and a president. One
could say that these two types of people are binary opposites. We chose to
represent our terrorist very controversially. When choosing the cast we didn’t
want to have stereotypical characters in our opening sequence. There are some
negative representations of gender in our thriller as when looking at status
there are no females which turns our to be very stereotypical as there has
never been a president that is a women in America. We did this due to many TV
programmes and films that have also only encorperated a male political system,
in GI Joe and even in love actually the person in power is male and so are his
staff except for the cleaning people who are female. There are also no other
ethnic groups except white people, which also gives ethnicity a negative
representation. We decided this through films such as vantage point where all
of the terrorists are muslim and
conduct attacks due to their religious beliefs. We also represented age due to
the age of the president and his advisor. We also used stereotypical age forms
here. Having sad this both ‘body guards’ are not very old at all and the actor
who plays the president is thirty-eight and this is not stereotypical at all.
The terrorist is a white
Muslim. The fact that he is Muslim is stereotypical and is also a negative
representation of ethnicity due to the assumption of many that Muslim people
are always terrorists and always the culprits of nuclear attacks. I got the
idea to have a white terrorist from the TV show 24, which has a white terrorist
in it. This was very effective as not many people think that he is a terrorist,
which was what we were trying to capture In our opening sequence. We have
conformed to dominant ideologies that all attacks on America are from someone
from a Muslim background. In our opening sequence we chose not to cast any
women as any roles. We chose to only have a male cast due to a lot of tv
programmes and films and also the fact that there has never been a male
president. However in our film all of the staff are also male. Films such as
vantage point, Independence Day, stop loss and the hurt locker all have a male
president and have male staff. We chose to continue this trend in our film. We
also chose to have a male president due to the fact that there is currently a
male president in office. Most of
these roles are high levels of political status and the president is the most
powerful person in the world. That fact that we didn’t cast a female character
for any of our roles is negative representation for gender as it is still
enforcing the dominant ideology of the 1950s, which was that women don’t have a
role in the work force. Moreover currently, the amounts of female jobs are
declining due to the fact they are feeling guilty about work. They are also not
being employed due to the fact they are unreliable. For example they may get
pregnant and cost the government money. This is why we chose to have a male
president.
The age groups that were in
our thriller were generally quite young. Due to today’s society presidential
candidates are becoming younger and younger. We chose to make our president a
lot younger as the actor that we employed is only 38. We chose to represent age
positively as it shows that regardless of your age you can still have a
position with high status and power. We are also disregarding dominant
ideologies that you need to be a certain age to get certain jobs. All of the
cast in our thriller are all white even the terrorist. Our thriller therefore
might put forward that there are no ethnic minorities with any positions of
power or at all in our opening sequence. This therefore is a negative
representation of ethnicity however we have not directly represented badly so
it is both. We also chose to have no ethnic people in our opening sequence as
in many TV shows and movies there is mainly white people and we decided to
follow suit. In GI Joe all the generals and the president are all white which
shows a lack of change since the 1960s.
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