How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The opening to Envy represents a quite obvious social group; students. The audience can easily tell this from the age of the characters and the location. The cast of skins are a good example of what our characters are like, even to more of a higher extent because of the fact that there is a killing involved, fans of skins may be intrigued by Envy because of its use of similar looking characters. The costumes used in Envy are quite similar to that of characters in skins, especially Jen as she is just a normal student, whereas Kat's costume is heightened by a small amount just to establish that she is the dark mysterious character out of the two. The fact that through out Kat has the hood of her coat up again establishes the mystery of her.
The opening to Envy represents a quite obvious social group; students. The audience can easily tell this from the age of the characters and the location. The cast of skins are a good example of what our characters are like, even to more of a higher extent because of the fact that there is a killing involved, fans of skins may be intrigued by Envy because of its use of similar looking characters. The costumes used in Envy are quite similar to that of characters in skins, especially Jen as she is just a normal student, whereas Kat's costume is heightened by a small amount just to establish that she is the dark mysterious character out of the two. The fact that through out Kat has the hood of her coat up again establishes the mystery of her.
The representation of females in Envy is very high, as the two main characters a women, resulting in them dominating the mise-en-scene, showing the generic conventions of traditional thrillers has changed. In recent thrillers female characters have become more dominant and striking, which is what we portrayed in Envy.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was one of the case studies that inspired the character of Kat, we thought that Kats costume and the significant short hair resembled some aspects of Lisbeth in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The portray of Gilda, the female character in Gilda, is a traditional thriller convention of females, another example is Eve in Once Upon A Time In America. Gilda has the obvious aspects of a typical femme fatale character; long dark hair, make up and a revealing dress. This is not what we wanted to show in Envy.
The age of our characters are realistic for the actors playing them, as they are actually of that age, this is effective because our target audience are students aged 16 - 18. The idea of jealousy is stereotypicaly associated with younger women as they fight for male attention, which again makes Envy more realistic and the 16-18 year old audiences can relate to why the characters are jealous, but of course they would not go to the extent of killing someone. The use of age follows the stereotype that young people cause trouble, is seen in Kidulthood, the brutal fighting is what older generations stereotype young people to do, Envy does incorporate this aspect but it does it subtly and is not as full on as it is in Kidulthood. Also Envy differs from Kidulthood because it is the young males who are fighting brutally and the women hide back scared, whereas Envy has the two women fighting.
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