How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my opening sequence there is just one white male. For my opening sequence I wanted the audience to recognise that he was an author. For this I researched into what an author might stereotypically wear and tried to base his costume around that. Authors don’t stereotypically have an accent and given the fact there is no dialogue there wasn’t any need to research into that.

I asked a few people what they think an author would look like and the majority said that it would be an old man with glasses, wearing formal clothing and lived a fairly dull life. I chose to match some of this but change other aspects. For example I made my character wear formal clothing but he wasn’t old and he didn’t wear glasses. Also in the opening sequence you see him taking drugs which is seen as complete binary opposite to a dull lifestyle.

Jordan Weeks