Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Task 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?

In terms of representation of a social group, Askew would represent young, educated women. We can convey this form two main elements: the sound (voice) and mise en scene (the diary entries)



This is one of the diary entries we used for our title sequence. We can say it represents educated young women, due to the good use of english and the articulate descriptions. The thoughts in these entries are quite intellectual - we wouldn't expect such thoughts to occur among teenagers, for example. One could also say that the handwriting is rather feminine, thus upholding the representation of young, educated women in our society. Also, the fact that these are diary entries reinforce this, since men don't usually keep diaries however it is common among women to keep journals and diaries to record their thoughts, moods and feelings.
In terms of sound (the voice of the woman), makes it clear that it is a woman speaking - she is simply reading her journal entries.

As time passes by, the handwriting and thoughts of the journal entries deteriorate - there are ink bleeds, blotches and stains across the page, and the thoughts she is writing about become darker, showing us her gradually turning insane. We could argue that this sequence could also represent mentally ill people, due to these elements that represent madness and insanity.

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