Evaluation Activity 2 - How our media product represents particular social groups

How our media product represents particular social groups

The football picture of Theo Walcott represents the football alter-ego of Bradley Keano, being the ex-gang leader who then gets accepted into the Arsenal trials midway through the movie (sorry for the spoilers!) and the caption links to Bradley Keano in terms of appearance, costume, role in film and even the character as Theo Walcott is an energetic and swift footballer and we attempted to have Bradley (Nile) be comparable to rising football players such as Walcott.

This is due to the fact that since he shared a similar path with Keano but the difference is that Walcott's path to superstardom was a real-life aspect and that's what motivated us more -- the fact we did not want this to feel like a Hollywood movie but an original "based on true life" sort of movie.

The suit picture of Walcott, if you already didn't know, represents the academic/smart lifestyle of Bradley Keano -- again, this was challenging due to the fact that we had tried to keep everything realistic here by making it seem as if Keano is still a kid in the game as well as he is a kid battling to get into university as well as being a kid who is battling to escape the visions that haunt him from his previous crime lifestyle.

The smartwear that Bradley uses in the movie is used as a, "clean slate all over again", sort of costume as it represents the light at the end of the tunnel for the main protagonist as well as it being cleanliness which contrasts the mood and atmosphere we were trying to hit with the entire movie.

So, you know, you'd see Nile's life as a gang member (since we would provide backstory to fill in any plotholes or gaps) and think, "Uhh, man, really? When's he going to leave", and then you see his academic successes and feel sheer joy for him.

Last but not least, the picture of the mixed-race person with a hoodie on represents the bleak ex-wanted gang leader, Bradley Keano, being part of the fearless "Golden Gunz" gang in Southern London.

The colour of the picture adds to the negative connotations as it paints the picture of the grey-ish feel we worked hard on trying to add into our movie as well as the grayscale colour adding to the fact that the gang life is old with the school/football life being new (hence the vivid colours that the other two personalities bring) and that the gang lifestyle will be mainly backstories about Keano's rise to the top of the GGP (Golden Gunz of Peckham).

As well as this, it could also mean the gritty feel that will be expressed when Keano realizes that his fellow gang members are attempting to lure him away from his successes and draw him into a web of deception, thievery and sin.

This would be proven by the fact that Keano's mother is a religious Christian -- she will be the main inspiration/driving force of Bradley throughout the movie as her voices will also be heard faintly through bad/thought-provoking moments that will pave the way for Brad.