Task 2: how does your product represent particular social groups ?

• How does your product represent particular social groups?

Our products main social group is terrorism. The way it is represented is by a suicide bomber which builds his bomb in a flat is most of our trailer footage is on this, but he then intends on going to a high street and releases the bomb. And this is sort of represented in the film vantage point. The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. This relates to our film as it is to do with a killing in a large area. In vantage point this was shot in a large square where the president was addressing the Spanish crowds. In our film the killings is in a high street where there was a lot of people around to get the maximum effect. Vantage point was aimed at the same target market that we are aiming at for example Action Crime Drama Thriller.
Another movie is Der Baader Meinhof Komplex the plot of this movie takes a look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction , which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. This relates to our movie by the use of terrorists because it is about bombings, kidnappings and assassinations, this links with our film by bombing and assassinations because using a bomb is a form of assassinations it also has chosen the none stereotypical vision of a terrorist someone who isn’t from a muslim or Islamic background.
We used a teddy bear this showed an image of soft , cute and not harmful but by putting a bomb in it this changed the image completely it comes across as a secret killer by doing this it changes the whole perception of the teddy bear.


• Look at how Social groups are represented in media products and compare these to your own film – how do they differ?

We chose something completely different to the normal stereotypical image such as a Muslim or someone from eastern Asian back grounds. In the news you wouldn’t expect a Spanish origin man be a suicide bomber you would more like suspect a Muslim or someone from a Islamic background. Hear is a stereotypical image of a bomber taken from the BBC website. This is a picture of one of the London bombers who has been jailed. When we chose our bomber we didn’t want to fall under this stereotypical bracket so we changed our bomber to someone who doesn’t look like they are from and eastern Asian backgrounds. For the recent attacks on London the news said it was buried in Pakistan is an auto assumption that they planned it in Pakistan. This is why using a non stereotypical person breaks the mold. When I was looking at other types if media I looked at the film team America this shows a clip of footage what they thing a terrorist looks like they stereotypical image is that they have a big bushy beard and buck teeth and have spooky eyes this is shown to be a intimidating look towards to audience. But going back to our bomber he looks completely different this appeals to a larger target audience which will be good to produce the movie on a large scale.