Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In this question i will talk about the social groups we have represented and how we have presented them in a way that can appeal to our audience.

Our media product particularly represents women.  We aimed to challenge the gender stereotype so often seen in action thrillers such as the Bourne Trilogy and the James Bond franchise, in which the male characters dominate the action roles, and where women are often seen as the weaker of the sexes, overtly feminine and reliant on the masculine heroes.

 

 Our female assassin, the heroine in our film, connotes dominance, stealth and power.  Our original inspiration for the sequence, Beatrix from ‘Kill Bill’, shares these qualities with our character and with the recent surge in female assassin movies such as Columbiana and Haywire, we were able to replicate a similar character using these movies, creating a modern and conventional female assassin.

By defying the stereotype of a male action hero and having a dominant female heroine as our main character, it inevitably means we are also portraying men as the weaker of the sexes.  The man in our sequence is completely helpless to the power of our female assassin, and instantly accepts his fate.  We emphasise this power of our assassin over the man when he asks, “Can I atheist have one last drink…” Not even completing his sentence, our assassin ruthlessly kills him, paying no attention to his pleas.

The dominance and power of our assassin is shown in our other action codes:

She is calculated and calm when she encounters the man, slowly approaching him through the kitchen. 

She brings the gun to the temple of his head to alert him of her presence, giving her full control of the situation. 

She shoots him in the head causing a gruesome blood splatter on the wall, yet she hardly flinches, emphasising the control she has and how heartless of an assassin she is.

She then plants the gun in his hand, showing that she knows what she is doing and that she has already planned the assassination, presenting her as calculated and meticulous.