2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Pokers Advocate appeals to a very specific social group I think, I feel that it appeals to both male and females around the age of 20+ they must have an interest in card games and logical plots to a film with a hint of comedy in it. The characters themselves each represent social groups I think Gary is represented in a very camp way we made jokes on set that his nickname should be “Brokeback” and looking back now in reflection it was a correct assumption that we accidently fashioned his character around another character of a very famous gay orientated film Brokeback mountain. So for this I feel that Gary represents the “stereotypical” homosexual male this was a positive thing as it shows that we can relate to the modern stereotypes without making fun or abusing them.

Another character that represents a particular social group is the main character Dave he represents the lower class lazy type of person who is very careless and doesn’t really care about himself.Having been the actor that plays this character I know that we did fashion Dave to be like this, you can see this from the way he dresses and the way he acts. A really good example of this is when the is a shot of Dave at table with his hand on his knee and slouched posture this shows he doesn’t really care despite being in a full professional game of poker he is just relaxed throwing chips about. Dave would represent the lower class type of person who is around middle aged and doesn’t really care much.

The two very key and certainly stereotypical characters we played in pokers advocate were the “angle and devil” as well know the angel is good and the devil is bad, we have by the use of clever editing, body art and clothing have represented and played this stereotypical part very well I think. The devil is dark and mysterious and the angel is light helpful and kind.

I think for all of our social representations we have done pretty well in fashioning the characters and aiming for particular social groups I do feel that you can clearly see how each character is created just by looking at them and you instantly get a feel of what the film is about just from looking at our opening because of this.

Another social group our film opening represents is gamblers they are often shown in allot of varied ways this can be from very rough/ illegal to very professional and smart. In our film opening we decided to go for the more relaxed dressed person but keeping the game table, equipment and rules professional a screenshot to show this would be:



As you can see on the left is "Gary" he is the more experienced professional player of the table and on the right is "Dave" is the more relaxed scruffy stereotype gambler.

A very small part played by "Holly" represents yet another social group in our film opening and that is of course rich/ well of people. Holly's character was formed on the belief that rich people stereotypically wouldn't be a part in underground poker games like this but we wanted to mix up the gambler and rich stereotypes to respresent both in one very small part played by a character. I think this worked very well the character was dressed perfectly wearing items such as dress, glittery scarf, combed hair, and pearl necklace all tell tale signs of wealth.

Screenshot of "Holly":



The most important social group being represented were gamblers as this is a very arguable diversity ie could be positive or could be negative and i think we have represented them fairly in our film opening.