Thursday, 26 April 2012

Q2 How Does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media mostly represents the police due to our main characters being a police duo.

We have decided to represent our social group by showing the police to be not very reliable and liars about how good they actually are. For example, we have shown that our police duo say they both have a secret talent but in fact they actually are just mocks. This adds to the comedy of our film. the police duo end up being hurt in the fight when in fact a good police officer would be the one to save the day and stop the villains and not get hurt themselves.

The mice-en-scene has helped up create this funny representation a lot. First, the wigs were outrageous but also typical of the period. There clothes were casual and did not have anything that was similar to the police on there costumes. They dressed typical of the period to show how relaxed and laid back they are about there jobs and fighting crime. The way that they act also shows how inexperienced they are. The way they hold onto there guns also shows how scared they are when usually police are fearless with criminals as they are used to dealing with these types of problems.

By betraying them in this way, we are showing the police to be good in the end even if they do not get to the end result straight away. in our, one of the police duo is hit in the face by a door and also gets hurt in the fight. But after the fight we see that they are victorious. So we are showing police in society to be challenged sometimes but in the end they do get the job done.

In the media, in proper crime films we see the police being challenged with extremely twisted minded people who think of new and inventive ways to commit crime that the police haven't even thought of yet.  In most films we see that the police always find out the answer in the end and go many lengths to get there. in ours, we have shown the police to sometimes be idiots but in the end save the day. So it is similar so existing representations but ours is a more comedic way to betray them 


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