Representation In My Film

Representation In My Film

I have been thinking about the way I'd like to use social class in my film. I am focusing on working class/underclass. But I'd like to represent the class in an ambiguous way I plan to capture the negative parts of the way that people live but hopefully in a way that makes it look arty and in its own way beautiful.

Basically I plan on presenting the characters in a positive way by not going down the stereotypical route of showing the young characters committing crimes or doing something anti-social and I want to show them being normal kids just getting by. I plan to show them in a park just chatting, playing football just normal kids. 

To show the negative side I'll use dirty back alleys, back to back houses and streets piled with rubbish. These are places where children in the area play out without any adult supervision and it is really dangerous. I will capture this and I also want to put my sequence in black and white which will connote the danger of the area. This represents that the children are not safe from threats from the outset. 

I will emphasise social class in my opening sequence by presenting the male sinister characters in suits and dressed smartly signifying to the audience that they are of a higher class. This contrasts with the clothing that the young working class characters will wear as they will be dressed in tracksuits and casual wear. This makes it obvious to the audience who is of a higher class and who is not.

The sinister men in suits are from a higher class and they also have the authority with supports the idea that 'money is power'.

In my openning sequence for Catch the higher class is represented in a negative way rather than the working class.