Evaluation Activity 2

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

I feel that our media film opening successfully represents a segment, be it a small segment, of young adolescents. Mainly this segment refers to the small group of drug effected teens to young adults ranging between 15 to 25, this will there for be the target audience for our film.

Toby Scott (protagonist)

Toby Scott is the protagonist of our social realistic thriller and we created him to slightly challenge the conventions of normal social realism's, although looking, speaking and from the external view act "normal" he does have his differences, not only in the fact he is a drug addict but he also deeply suffers from social awkwardness, making his character unlike most as he is not easily relate-able to most. However in terms of his addiction and separation from the "average" person he is much like, and was greatly influenced by Mark Renton.

Both characters, although suffering from drug addition and their own unique outlooks on life, have been portrayed in ways which not only make the viewers sympathise with them but end up feeling connected to them by sharing deep and often dark events that shape them.

Similarities

Both Toby and Mark are protagonists in films that related their addition into everyday terms and surround their lives in darkness. Toby much like Renton is a social outcast and other than his similar surrounding friends who all suffer their own daily problems he has no one in his life.

The Mise-En-Scene in both "Trainspotting" and "Old Habits Die Hard", in my opinion, relate to the characters in more than just personal tasted but in wants and hopes, Renton in my view deeply wants to be "normal" or at least in the way he perceives it and Toby greatly needs to be noticed thus their styles match who they hope to become.

Differences

Although both play a similar role in similar film Renton is much more visibly damaged by the long term use of drugs where as Toby is more mentally effected by the drugs. Another difference between the two is the age both of them are young adults but from the opening its clear Renton is older than Toby and this is partly shown in Toby's fear around Creegan and compared to that of Renton who is very confrontational