Our production contains 2 main characters and as well as one we briefly see during a hallucination. The main factor affecting the social groups of the characters was the practicality of it – since we were a small scale, one-off production team we couldn’t be very selective about who we chose to feature in our film opening. This was also because we all had to live close to the filming locations to ensure we had as much filming time available to us as possible. For this reason, all of the characters are young, white males. This means that it may not necessarily conform to the generic representations of the social group because the characters all belong to the same group, but play roles which contrast with each other. For example, the fact that our antagonist is a white male - who is in control for the whole of the sequence - reinforces the stereotypical representations of white men having power.
The protagonist, however, is represented in a contrasting way, because we see him as a more vulnerable individual who is less in control. We carefully used non-verbal language to present the mood of the character throughout the scene, and used water to emulate sweat to make the character look exhausted and panicked.
Our media product generally conforms to the representations of gender roles. Even though there are no females in our footage, the antagonist is typically male anyway due to the residual ideology that men are – generally – physically stronger than women and therefore, in some ways, have more power and control.
However in some ways our media product also contrasts with this ideology, with the victim being in the same social group as the antagonist. This, however, is due to the constraints explained earlier and is something which was out of our control.
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