Question Two

How does you media product represent particular social groups?

your average woman in need of saving

In our film we have two types of people, we have one female and we have one male. Both are important and link together. And yet are both not how males and female are usually portrayed in your average zombie comedy movies. 

The Female... 

The female is portrayed as a higher up class person, posh, rich and possibly a snob. She is out on the moors, wearing jogging bottoms and a red bench fleeces. This could be to try and fit in with all the other average people. Yet with all her intelligence, she isn't clever or knows how to save herself. She ends up being easy to kill off. She to is a victim as she is unable to save herself. As the film goes on we are shown the male, he fears the female, he doesn't attempt to kill her and cause her harm, he runs away from her. So she may be even more powerful as to the fact that she is dead. For her makeup, we didn't really give her any, so she may be just trying to blend in with everyone else, and  because of the costume she was wearing, It seemed like there was no need for her to be wearing any makeup, and if she didn't, she would look silly. The female who plays the character is attractive but doesn't say a lot, so its possible she thinks lower of working class people. She has looks, but no brain. For camera shots, we never got any close up shots of her when she was alive. Possibly because she didn't want people knowing who she was and didn't want attention focused on her. The camera was kept away from her face and if there was close up, they wouldn't be of her face. She only got her close ups when she was dead. So people could be aware of what she had become, also she wouldn't of cared because of course, she was dead. 

The male...

your average, cowardly hero. 

The male is one of your average boys, he is all brains but has no courage. So he is one of your cowardly hero's. The one hero who doesn't really know what on earth he is doing but will try his best, even if it means getting himself almost killed numerous times. We did this through the persons personalty and through what he wears. He wear a black jacket and black sunglasses, even though he is in doors and its not even sunny outside. So he is trying to be col and sexy, because he is going to see the female that was on the screen earlier on in the opening.  When he notices his friend outside his house he is curious but knows something is wrong,  when we see that he realized she is dead and walking around. All that courage and confidence rolls right out the window. You could say he is like an average hero in a zombie movie, he has little knowing of self-defense but learns quickly how to use weapon and how to kill the un-dead. The character does grab a weapon for self defense. But when he knows thing are going down hill, he hides and doesn't try to defend himself off. By the time he hides, all the un-dead break in and bang on the door, knowing that he is in there. So you could also way that he is stupid and cowardly, when his fear rolled in deep. With camera shots we have many ones of him, we have close ups of his face on numerous occasions, nine out of ten times there are expressions of fear on his face as he realizes things are bad for him. We get many different types of shots with him because he is being normal, he is your average person but dealing with a big problem, so we needed to be doing all these different type of camera shots to try and get across the chaos of what is going through his head at the point in time.