Monday, 3 March 2014

Question 2

CHARACTER COMPARISON

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

  • Pick a key character from your opening. Take a screengrab of a reasonable sized image of them. 
  • Think of one or more characters from other films with some similarity to them (but maybe some differences too!), find an image on the web of that/those characters and grab it as well. 
  • Drop the two into Photoshop, as a split screen. Export this splitscreen image as a jpeg then drop onto your blog and describe the similarities and differences in terms of appearance, costume, role in film etc.

So for example if you have a lone cop type character, look for other stereotypes of lone cops to compare him with...


What are you saying about gender - male female expectations in a thriller, a predominantly male genre?

No comments:

Post a Comment