Question 2 - How does your opening scene represent particular social groups?

Question 2 – How does your opening scene represent particular social groups?

The social group this film is directed at are teenagers preferably aged between 13 and onwards. This is because our genre is action adventure and to find the right target audience we researched the most popular social groups for action adventure films. The key character in my film is a 21 year old man named Jamal. Jamal is a normal guy whose occupation is computer science salesman. Jamal loves anything involving around computers and yet he still lives with his family. Jamal is tall, lean figure far from the ‘muscular’ bulky type. Jamal’s life begins to change as he lives a double life which he has to keep as a secret to protect his identity. A mighty ring which has been passed through the family hereditary. Jamal finds this special ring which gave him super powers and wore it whenever trouble occurred. This special job for Jamal was very important because back in primary school Jamal was a bit of a nerd, he wore tight skinny jeans and really geeky glasses. He would get bullied because of his appearance and his strange personality, but what was brave about him was that he kept it all in and never retaliated to the remarks. So this was a prefect motive for him to boost his confidence and show a contrast between his normal personality and him being a superhero. The sound used in the opening sequence portrays Jamal’s character as someone who laid-back and lazy, but at the same time there is an urge of suspense and mystery to him. The lighting of the camera is low-key which suggest that Jamal the protagonist is dull and boring and maybe show he is a moody character. The opening sequence to Rush Hour 3 starts with the main character Chris Tucker who is supposed to a traffic warden but instead is too busy listening and dancing that he is unaware that cars are crashing against each other because he is not doing his job right. This opening sequence is very different from our group because in the other opening sequence they have opened it with what the target audience would expect from the film which is comedy/action. On the other hand our opening sequence does not give away much from the character as supposed to the film. This is to make the audience anxious and eager to see what will happen next. Another opening sequence that our film can relate to is Spiderman. This is because in the opening sequence of Spiderman it also shows a normal guy doing what he does regularly before he goes to work then ends up finding he has superhuman powers. BATMAN is also another film which is similar  because both characters attributes are weak and both personalities are not as strong until they become superheroes when they are positive role models and have a stronger characteristics. We chose our cast accordingly to our story. A scene in our opening sequence there is a board room meeting where we needed at least 6 actors/actress to be involved. We varied this by choosing at least 3 boys and 3 girls to make the boardroom meeting equal and more realistic. We directed our cast to act normal and not over the top just like you would behave in an important boardroom meeting. We were looking for our cast to be reliable, dedicated and focused. Our cast were much focused and did everything we asked them to do. They also pitched in some ideas for how to improve the shot and also positioning e.g. the positioning of the table and cameras which our group found very helpful.