Evaluation Activity 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our characters in The Alliance were inspired protagonists and antagonists in other action, thriller and adventure movies such as The Expendables, The Transporter, The Dark Knight Rises and Mission Impossible. We wanted to attract a target audience of males aged around 15 - mid 30s, these were similar target audience for the film that inspired up.

We wanted our main protagonist of the film to be similar to Frank Martin, played by Jason Statham, in the action/thriller film, The Transporter. Jason Statham is well known for his appearance in many action and thriller film titles such as The Transporter, The Expendables and Spy. From the image of the two protagonists above, through mise-en-scène, we can tell that they both have the same props. They both use prop pistols to connote to an action / thriller film. Through mise-en-scène, you can also tell that their clothing is different. This may be due to the location of the film because our film is set in the woods where as Transporter is in an urban environment. The clothing in our film is more green and camo to suit the location. Jason Statham, in Transporter, wears a full suit. This gives the impression that he is like a spy or is a wealthy character. This is also true in the James Bond films as the main protagonist is a spy who wears a suit.

Our antagonists in our film are made to look very mysterious, violence through mise-en-scène and camera angles. They wear dark black clothes and black balaclavas to make them more threatening and dangerous. We wanted out antagonists in our film to resemble Bane, played by Tom Hardy, from The Dark Knight Rises.  The picture of Bane, in the photo above, denotes him wearing a dark brown leather jacket with a metallic bullet proof vest underneath. Both the images of the antagonists use a low angle camera shot to give them more authority and to make them seem more powerful. The antagonist character in The Dark Knight Rises also wears a mask because of an accident that occurred when he was very young. The mask also makes him look more intimidating and feared conforming to the thriller genre. Other antagonists in our film wore balaclavas because we wanted to achieve the same effect of making the audience feel intimidated by them.