Patrick Ngombo: Evaluation Question 2

Q2) How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

In our clip, we had one main character, which was played by yours truly. The character had a very formal and smart costume. The costume fits in with his social class background, he comes from a middle class status. He wears a blazer, shirt and tie. His shoes are shiny clean and he likes to keep up with his appearance. Seeing that he’s the only character in the clip, he seems like a very important person and a dangerous man and with the help of the intense and heavy soundtrack, the audience can realise this. As a group we thought having myself play the main character was best, as we thought a male would make the ‘stalker’ theme more effective because it is a stereotype for a male to be a stalker rather than a female. Also, being be formally dressed so it looks as if ‘he knows what he’s doing’ and seems like a computer genius and seems like a serious and dangerous man, another reason why we chose for him to be formal was because he comes from a middle class background, where he seems like hes a intelligent man. Feedback whilst playing the role helped to shape the character more and bring out all the elements of the social groups that we needed to emphasis for our film in order to make it seem realistic as possible ones we saw in a few opening sequences like from famous action thrillers ‘Expatriate’ and ‘Bourne Identity’ and some aspects from the movie ‘Phone Booth’. We had to make sure the audience would notice he was a stalker so movements and costume had to be set for that type of character, he couldn't be in his tracksuit bottom trying to stalk someone, and had to be well fit for the character.