Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups

Urban Legend Vs Unsuspected

Above are two pictures, 1 is of a scene from a film called Urban Legend (Left) which is showing a character in the back of a car about to grab and kill the victim driving. The other picture is showing a scene from our film unsuspected (Right) which is showing the antagonist watch his victim run away from him. These two characters both have very similar aspects in the film they appear in, and some different features as well.

Their appearance in the film are very similar. Both being 'mystery' characters you are never revealed who they actually are until perhaps the end of the film. Both characters only show a blind bit of their body e.g. the back which does not reveal their face and therefore their identity.

Another similarity is their costume. As you can see in the urban legend picture, the character is wearing all black and a hood which suggests they do not want to be identified and shown to the audience. This is exactly the same in our film unsuspected. Our antagonist David is wearing all black and a hood which also suggests that he does not want to be identified and leaves a mystery to audience in which they wonder who he is.

For both characters their role in both films are obvious, the urban legend character is clearly shown as the antagonist because of their costume and their body language which suggests the character is going to harm the victim. This is the same as in our film where David is given the antagonist role shown by the use of costume and his character positioning which is only showing the back of him.

The only difference that may come across from both characters are that you are never sure that David is a murderer whereas the urban legend character clearly is. The urban legend character is shown to be violent by surprising the victim and holding a weapon, but David is holding nothing to harm the victim. This is a clear difference that separates the two characters.