Dominant and Subordinate representations of race.

Ethnic Stereotypes

 

Definition of Ethnicity - Ethnic traits, background, allegiance or associations or ethnic group.

 

Stereotypes -

 

Black people

- Faster/ better at sports

- Better singers

- Better Dancers

- Over sexual

- Crime

- Less intelligent

 

White People

- Upper-class

- Cant Dance

- Well spoken

- Dumb blondes

- Greedy

- Materialistic

 

Asian People

- Computer nerd

- Mathematical

- Corner shops

- Pushy parents

 

Gypsies

- Usually Irish

- Baggy clothing/ gold earrings

- Travel

- Party a lot  

 

Polish

- Steal all of our jobs

- Builders

- Poor

 

 

 

Class Representation

Working Class Stereotypes 

- Selfish
- Women are normally out of control and loud
- Racist
- Alcoholics
- Abusive
- Violent
- Live in high crime areas
- School dropouts
- Violent dogs
- Pregnant teens
- Physical job like garage man/ builder
- Chav

Middle Class Stereotypes

- White collar jobs
- Home owner
- Golf, cricket , tennis
- Daily mail reader
- Financially stable family
- Able to go on vacation once a year
-  Family car
- Church goers
- Chooses work that requires a degree
- Have been taught one more skill

Upper Class 

- Hunting, Shooting and fishing
- snobby
- Land Owners
- Horses
- Wealthy
- Boarding school
- Have expensive cars
- Good manners
- Skiing
-  Toff

Taking the BBC British Class Test

In our lesson today we had to take a test on the BBC website. The test was all about seeing which class you fit into wither it being upper class, middle class or working class. But in this test they had different categories that were very similar. I filled out the questionnaire pretending to be my parents so I would get a good idea in which class I would be in because I will follow on from what group my parents are in.

This is a scale of what the stereotypes of each class look like which a little caption next  to them. This can be altered though because you cant always judge what class some one is in via what they wear.

Evaluation 

This is my contact sheet from our opening sequence. The first frame is our opening shot of Chester Wallace walking down the beach thinking about life. The title sequence that I made is going to go with the second shot when there is a medium shot of Chester walking. We still need to find a appropriate song to go with our genre of film. We also still need to find out a name for our film as we can't all decided on a good and appropriate Title for our film which will go over when Chester is walking down the beach. The next shot will be framed through a ring with focus pull focusing on the actor.

Casting

Here we are tying to find out cast members for our film.  We are looking for a main character who is able to pull off the role that we want them to and can look depressed and sad when we want them to.  We want a character who is down to earth being either a boy or girl. We also might need to look for more characters for other scenes in our film. 

All of these people are in our media class so we are able to easily contact them when needed if we would want them in out film. We also can't decide wither or not we would like a girl actor or a boy actor at the moment.

One problem is that none of these students have taken drama for GCSE or A-level which could be draw back from having a good actor, but because we don't want some one who is over confident and melodramatic which is the opposite of what we want. We want some one who looks normal and looks depressed.

Testing out shots for our rugby scene

In our lesson we went out into the field to test out some shots for our ruby scene.  We wanted to try and get the first shot when Tom (main character) catches the ball in the air.  We were just trying out different shot types and using auto and manual focus to see which looks best.   

We will be filming the rugby scene at the park and we are going to invite some people so we are   able to get more people to make it look like a little rugby kick around with some friends having fun.

We have decided to film like a mini montage for our rugby scene with using different cuts and editing techniques. We will e filming the scene in the park hopefully on a sunny day with a big group of friends to make it look like a proper rugby game.