Thursday, February 23, 2012

Evaluation Question 2 :



Our media product has only white males from ages 16 – 50+, it shows a large 50+ male as being the police chief, and the assassin is a young white male , also you only see the eyes.
I think our police chief is stereotyped, as he is a white male, 50+ , with a rather large build to show he doesn’t do field work, but more office duties. This isn’t a negivitive stereotype, unless you’re a police chief who is tired of people assuming he’s a overweight aging man. Apart from that our film product doesn’t stereotype any particular age, physical ability or sexuality. However gender is only male, this is because we couldn’t see a part for a female character in the first two minutes with her being seen as some ones wife, or someone’s lover on the street corner, which would confuse the killers motives.
We showed some characters as middle class, with long coats and mannerisms, but some working class, with camouflage coats and jeans. But also upper class with a man in tie blazer and shirt, who speaks with a upper class accent.
The upper class man is seen in a well lit room, on the television during a news broadcast, while the majority of the shots are based on the middle class man, then the lower class man is seen in the dark.

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