Task 2

How does your product represent particular social groups?

Our product doesn’t really represent a specific social group, however it does challenge the viewer’s perception of political figures and figures in authority in the 1950s. Also as you can see from our opening sequence there are no black people, this is because in the fifties the film industry was very closed shop and no black people where aloud. This is because it was still the time when black people where not treated as equals to the white people. We where considering getting a black person to come across the set at the end of the fifties scene, we were going to have him sweeping the floor at the end. This will have shown the viewers that black people still had no power at this time.

Also as you can see in the opening sequence we cover another fifties issue this being that most people on film sets at this time where men, this is because stereotypically in the fifties woman did not have powerful jobs. All the significant jobs as you can see were given to men for example the director, the producer and the main film crew where all male. The only jobs given to women were the ones who stared in the movies and also assistant, jobs that didn’t have much power. This is why in our opening sequence there are only two females; one playing the character of Marilyn Monroe and the other is an assistant. Throughout the movie the viewer would have seen that the issue of men being more powerful than woman is dealt with hugely as the movie focuses on Marilyn who spent most of her time in a man filled world for example in the film industry and in her political involvements with the Kennedy brothers.


Many other films deals with the issue of men being more powerful than woman, even in modern day films the issue is still addressed, this is because it is a common issue and still to this day you could argue that woman are still not fully equal to men.