Within our film we don't particularly concentrate on one specific social group such as Colour, Region and Age and so on. However in our film we concentrate on age,gender, size, stereotypes and even American vs English groups. Throughout our film we have the constant representation of gender, as stereotypically men are the stronger, better and smarter sex whilst women are weaker, dependent and less intelligent sex. But in our film we decide to go against the stereotypical representation to add comedy to film as because its not a stereotypical view, the audience laugh at the change, but we also decided to do this to see how the audience would react when the roles are changed and see whether this would benefit or ruin the film.
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| Gender |
So as you can see, we have Drake (Amir) lying on the floor being attacked by a girl zombie. This is strange because if we stuck to stereotypes a 'big' 'muscular' man wouldn't be able to be tackled to the ground by a 'small' and 'weak' girl. Then if you look again you can see my character (Sam) in the background looking 'helpless' and 'weak' a she expects her 'strong' friend to take care of it himself. However this isn't the situation as Drake (Amir) calls out for help from Sam and she finds a weapon and kills the girl herself.
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| Stereotypes |
So what you can see above is a screen shot of me and Amir (Sam and Drake). Firstly we have Sam who because of her blond hair she would be stereotypically viewed as stupid, blunt, girly and weak, whilst Amir on the other hand is from the middle east and would stereotypically be viewed as a terrorist and violent. However this is not the case as my character (Sam) is actually the smart and strong one whilst Amir (Drake) is the clumsy and helpless one.
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| Size |
Another representation was size as typically a taller person would be stronger whilst a smaller person would be weaker, however we break this representation as in our film we have the smaller zombie being the strong one and the tall one being weak, as you can see from the shot the tall zombie could easily overpower the small one but this isn't the case this time.
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| Age |
All of the characters in our film are young characters either at the age of 16, 17 or 18, this means the representation of the film is important. The reason we chose to film young characters was to appeal to the audience as the majority of people who view zombie comedies are between the ages of 13 to 24. If the audience can relate to the characters it creates a connection between them which in turn makes the audience like them, myself personally related myself to Shaun out of 'Shaun Of The Dead' as i would probably not realise a zombie apocalypse was occurring unless i was attacked. But also at the start of the film we see Drake and Sam being typical teenagers, messing about, being clumsy and having fun (like above) as they still believe life is normal, however later on in the film we see Sam and Drake again in the toilets but instead of being clumsy and messing about we see them as mature and focused at whats happening showing the audience that people can change to respond to a situation.
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| Britain |
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| USA |
Lastly we have Britain Vs USA. What i mean by that is when you say zombie horror in America you get the above martial arts, acrobatic super killing women and when you say zombie horror in Britain you get two average joes who have no idea whats going on or how to solve. This shows the complete difference in the countries idea of zombie Apocalypse. If you look at the top left you see Shaun and Ed from 'Shaun Of The Dead' they both are common working class man with everyday jobs (unless your Ed) but life is normal, but when you look at the top right you see Alice from 'Resident Evil' she is wearing adventurous and protective clothing and is well equipped showing that apparently in America if a zombie Apocalypse occurs everything you need to survive will be just around the corner. So when it came to our film we adopted the British representation of horror because its makes the audience feel like they have something in common and can relate to each other but also because its more realistic then back flipping into the air and killing 50 zombies with a pistol in 10 seconds.
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