Our opening film sequence and our film. Represents certain
social groups in a negative light. Within our film, we have a young male
(Demarco) and an older male (Nikolai). Demarco, as a drug dealer and subsequently
a criminal, he automatically has negative connotations. Drugs and crime are bad
associations. We challenge stereotypes somewhat, as we have set up our
characters as being intelligent. Which contrasts heavily with the typical
conventions of a young drug dealer.
The gun helps establish negative connotations, as Demarco is
seen as being violent. If you look closely, you will see that Demarco fires
only two shots at the police, while Nikolai is trigger happy and fires many.
This sets up Demarco as being less violent and aggressive. He only uses the gun
when his life is threatened. Which is why he doesn’t wave it around during the
drug deal, while characters like Lukas and Nikolai do.
We chose Jamie to play as Nikolai, not only because he
wanted to be that role, we also all agreed that he’d fit that role. We felt he
looked more assertive than let’s say, me or Daniel. He had a more assertive
tone. Which is a big factor of Nikolai’s character. An assertive man who orders
around a younger man and a drug buisness.
Mise en scene, in terms of Demarco’s clothing, hints at a roguish
personality.
The locations further help to establish Demarco’s
illegal/criminal actions (alleyways, back passage ways), which further help to push forward the impression
that Demarco falls in line with typical lower social class conventions as well as age conventions.
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