evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Gender

At the beginning of the two minute clip there is a close up of someone doing there coat up then it goes to them stubbing out there cigarette and then walking off, this automatically gives the audience the feeling that this character is going somewhere.  Meanwhile there is non diegetic music playing in the background whilst we are seeing the clips of the actor. Within the first thirty seconds we have been introduced to the main characters who are both men from this  assume that the target audience is more for men then women. The music which is played through out the clip the music is a drum and bass which has a fast beat to the track. From the type of music type we can then say it is more for a younger target audience of men than for older men. From within the first minute of the opening you can clearly establish who the target audience is.

When we hear the over voice speaking we hear a cockney accent from this we can maybe link this to other gangster genre films like snatch and lock stock and two smoking barrels, and football factory. The actors are wearing leather jackets with black trousers and what we see of a shirt and a tie, this shows us that they are formal but with the title of ‘crafty’ this shows the audience that they are up to no good. This would be a good representation of men hat they are formally dressed and that we haven’t yet seen them do anything bad.  The fact that the whole clip has only man actors throughout this is a key factor that the film would be more targeted for males than females.

When the clip cuts to a two shot characters Vinnie and Tommy walking together we assume that these two are working together and about to go somewhere to do something. We assume this of who closely they are walking together and that they are friends.