Evaluation question 2: How does your film represent particular social groups?
To do this I am going to pick out the main character from our film, I am then going to compare him to someone of a similar age from a similar film. The character I have chose to compare our survivor to is Columbus OHIO from the movie Zombieland.
The Survivor-
The main character is not given a name in our film so I am going to refer to him as the survivor. He appears to be the sole survivor from this Zombie Apocalypse as he is walking through the deserted fields alone. He obviously knows that some infection has broke out and that is why he is dressed in his protective white overalls and face mask to try and stop him getting the disease. He is also prepared for different scenarios as he is carrying a backpack full of his belongings so he can make a quick getaway from any situation. He is a young character which is breaking the stereotype of the usual zombie film as their main characters are usually older than him. The survivor is in his late teens which means he has done very well to out survive more experience people. He also must have a very strong will for someone his age to survive all this time on his own, without his parents or any friends. This again differs from the usual stereotype of teenagers in films who are very dependent on the people around them and can't usually do everyday tasks without the help of their mum or dad.
Columbus OHIO-
Columbus is a very unlikely survivor from the zombie apocalypse, he has a lot of different phobias and states the only reason he survived is because of his list of rules. He starts of as the only survivor but eventually meets a group of friends and then relies on them heavily which is very different to the Survivor. He is the classic 'nerdy' teenager which is the character that Jesse Eisenberg usually plays. The character is like this because Zombieland is a comedy as well as a zombie film unlike our film Immunity. The character from our film is a lot more serious and this is due to the differences in the two films. I feel that Zombieland's representation of the young adult character is probably more realistic than ours because of his realiance on older characters and the how he is a lot more twitchy and nervous unlike our lone survivor who must cope on his own throughout. However because of this our film gives a much more positive representation of youth as he is a strong young male who can live on his own even in these very difficult situations.


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