Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, the camera stopped recording towards the end of our question and did not record us speaking about the theories. 

According to Angela McRobbie, all women are manipulated by the media into believing they should act a certain way. She believes that the media try and socialise into particular gender roles. In our opening sequence we have followed McRobbie's gender theory as we have represented women as being submissive and as feminine through are use of costume choice. Women are seen to be wearing pink which is a main stereotype of women. Pink signifies femininity and we wanted to present to the audience that we are following the stereotype conventions in the opening of our film as an equilibrium but during the end of the film all the stereotypes and represenations are broken and changed. We also dressed the wife in red to connote her sexuality and that she is promiscus, which most woman are represented as an object according to Laura Mulvey's gender theory. She states that there are only two main roles for women in society. One being represented as a virgin; innocent and vunerable, easily taken advantage of. The other being a "whore" and being sexually promiscuous. In our opening sequence we have represented the wife as both of these. Being the "virgin" as she has been locked up in the cellar and acts as the innocent wife being treated badly by her own husband. Hence the reason she has a white skirt on to signify her innocence and purity. On the other hand, she is also seen as a "whore" as she cheated on her husband and he is making his revenge. This is also the reason why we put her in a red top to connote her promiscuous action. 

Film as a group, writing by me (Freya)