EVALUATION 2

2. How does your media product present particular social groups?

In our film the main character is a mental patient played by Joe, we depict the mental patient in a straight jacket. As he is restrained from movement with this iconic jacket it shows he may be a danger if he did not have it on. It represents immediately that the person is suffering from mental health issues.

It is also related to the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest, where someone tries to fake mental illness to get out of jail. As our mental patient is in an asylum it shows that he is locked up because it is potentially dangerous to people on the outside.

One scene in our film shows particularly represents a mental patient when we have a shot of an extreme close up of an eye with the pupil flickering around to show a sense of insanity by creating a fearful panicky mood. We also added in red to add to the enigma of the eye and the insanity.

Our film will ultimately represent mentally ill people as dangerous and as a threat as you see our main character being locked up but escaping giving all kinds of possibilities at what he can do. It seems to create a sense of threat.