Evaluation Activity 2

Social groups can be two or more people interacting and sharing similar characteristics. For example, these characteristics can consist of sharing the same beliefs, motives, roles or social rank etc. One advantage of having social groups is that it helps identify one another. One disadvantage is that it stereotypes people placing certain individuals in one category.

In my two minute title sequence, a particular social group is represented. This social group is young black youths. When watching the sequence, your first stereotypical views are based on the appearance, costume, language and the role in which the characters play in the film. I am going to compare and contrast one character from '1Day' and one character from my sequence evaluating on their appearance, costume, role in the film etc.

The top screen features Flash from 1Day. He is a black male part of a gang known as Old Street. Throughout the film we see his struggles as he tries to pay his debt to Angel whilst running from rival gang members and protecting his family. From his appearance and clothing, he is seen as the stereotypical gang member who is violent and dangerous. However he is a gang member but he is trapped in the life of crime and needs to put everything right so he can leave the streets.

The bottom screen features Jayde from my two minute title sequence. He is also a black male who took part in criminal activity. Throughout the film we see him reminiscing on his past running from the police with his brother after a robbery. From his appearance and clothing, he is seen as a stereotypical hoodlum or gang member who is dangerous and violent. However he is not dangerous or violent, he is just trapped in a cycle of crime due to peer pressure from his brother. In his heart he wants to do leave street crime alone but something keeps pulling him back.





Both characters wear similar clothing. For example both of them are wearing a hat/cap which covers their eyes suggesting they are involved in criminal activity. They are also wearing loosely fitted clothing. Flash is wearing a collared tracksuit top and jeans; which suggests although he is part of a gang, he still makes the effort to look more classy. On the other hand Jayde is wearing a t-shirt with a puffy body warmer and tracksuit suggesting he doesn't really care about his appearance which links in with his personality as being carefree. In contrast Flash is wearing dark coloured clothing which suggests he is too deep in the life of crime whereas Jayde is wearing neutral colours suggesting he is in between good and bad. In addition, both of their clothing represents the stereotypical views of what gang members look like.