Thursday 17 April 2014

evaluation (part 5) representing particular social groups.



In our sequence, there are not many representations of social groups as it is showing only one person, a serial killer. Serial killers are genuinely going to be individual and independent so they do not get caught. I think this shows they are unsociable and do not belong in a social group. Killers tend to prey on certain groups of people, normally female groups; which could be split into many different social groups, for example;  as they are easier to restrain, and manage as they are weaker than and not as able as fully grown men to retaliate.  Films such as ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’ are films that the killers’ main target is females.
Our film has no physical characters representing a social group but the props used indicate that there is some sort of social group involved apart from the killer. For example the earrings are dangly and very feminine, giving a stereotypical view on females. This is the only place in our sequence where I feel that social groups is really represented as killers don’t tend to interact with the outside world, whereas when the film actually started there would be a lot more.

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