Question 2

In our thriller opening sequence have many different characters which represent many different social classes

Mentally disabled-

In the media people who have a mental disability are shown as paranoid, dangerous, alone and also bad. These examples below show these stereotypes through our mentally disabled character and also characters from other film titles. 

This is our mentally disabled character in our opening sequence, he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

This character is from the film " A beautiful mind" and he suffers from schizophrenia

Another stereotype of mentally disabled people which is in the media is that their; happy, harmless, caring and understanding. This is the character simple jack in the film tropic thunder, he is this typical stereotype.



We choose to make our main protagonist a mentally disabled male. In the sequence the character suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. In the media the mentally disabled are dangerous, alone and bad. In our opening sequence we've used some of these representations, for example our mentally disabled character is dangerous and also lives alone. As a group we decided to have these representations because we wanted to show to our audience how not all mentally disabled people are the same come can be safe to be around but some can be shown as a threat.



Middle class,business man-

As a group we decided to add the character who was in the social group of a middle class business man. In our opening sequence we've represented this character as smart and certificated. As a group we decided to gives this character this social class of a middle class business man because we wanted to show the audience how the main protagonist who is mentally disabled will react to someone who is of the social class.

                               



















In the media Middle class business men are shown as people being; highly skilled, sophisticated and well dressed. In our opening sequence we used this representation for our middle class business man character. 


Hoodies, teenagers, criminals-

In our opening sequence our final social class which we added was the social class of teenagers which are also hoodies and criminals. We choose to add these characters which had this social class because we wanted to show our audience how our mentally disabled character would react around these characters. In the media this social class is represented as; dangerous, intimidating and threatening so knowing these representations we thought as a group this would be the best social class which would test the mentally disabled character.



The stereotype which is used in our opening sequence is the main stereotype for teenagers in general. For example they are represented as dangerous, social and intimidating. Below are some examples of teenagers which are typically stereotyped in the media.