Q2

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our main protagonist is a ‘lone-wolf’ hero type, he would be similar to characters such as Tuvia from ‘Defiance’ (2008) or Jason Bourne from the ‘Bourne Identity’ films.

They are similar in the way that you cannot tell straight away whether or not they are a hero or a villain. They all have a sense of mystery to them, giving a first impression of mystery and not really knowing what kind of character they are at a first glance. They are all also under threat throughout most of the film and have people who would want to kill them.

They are different in that our character clearly has a femme fatale who wanted him dead, as we can see from the kiss on the neck. We drew inspiration from the film ‘Holes’ (2003) in which there is a character named ‘Kissing Kate Barlow’ who leaves a kiss behind on her victims. Other differences we can see is that our protagonist clearly was not someone who could ‘shoot to kill’ if he was attacked, unlike Jason Bourne for example. We can see this by his body language before he gets into the car and his helplessness as he is attacked.

We were very specific with how we wanted to him to look. We chose the jacket and the shirt look to make him look like a spy or a hero. However this could suggest he is a villain as well. His car and the location of the scene is filmed in a nice location, possibly telling us he is quite well off and not lower class.

 

We used certain cinematography techniques for Harry as he is walking towards the car in order to show him as the victim. For example we have a shot of Harry looking over both shoulders as he is getting into the car and the sequence of still shots during the silence also suggests that he is the victim.