Representations are judgments people make on specific social groups - this is also known as stereotyping. In many films and tv drama's there are lodes of stereotyping in different social groups. Examples of this is that the female protagonist is more likely to be the weaker character; a young male(black - African/Caribbean) is more likely to be seen as a gangster or the one whom causes chaos; a muslim may be stereotyped as a terrorist and so on. Social groups can be split up and based on: sex, ethnicity, religion and so on.
In my film opening the main social group is the female sex however it is also contradicting. The reasons for this is because all of the characters in our film opening are females. We have a female who is having a nightmare allowing her to seem week however we have female bullies making them seem strong and dominating. Throughout the rest of the thriller film I would have thought that we would probably use stereotypes as they are very comon and sometimes appealing however we would also challenge representations to stand out from other films in the market.
Since we represented females in a positive and negative way I think it may lack realism as majority film openings have both genders and if there is a female hero alongside there would be a male hero aswell. By representing females positively aswell as negatively I feel like the audience would relate more as females are not only week.
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