This Nike bomber jacket is mostly worn by
youth with street affiliation. With what I have seen myself in reality and in social realism movies this
jacket is commonly worn by them, mainly because of the puffiness of the jacket
and the secret pockets embedded in the coat which maybe used for storage for
illegal items. The hood is very big as well which enable the users to pull over
their face to not reveal their identity while committing crime.
In this mood board I picked out a range
of pictures from different social realism films to help understand my costume
arrangement for my characters in the trailer.
From my mood board I Inferred that hooded clothing are stereotypically worn by mainly the Afro-Caribbean
ethnic group. Hoodies are seen to be
quite intimidating . The media has left a negative stamp on
the young
generation
by labelling
hoodie-wearing
teenagers
as
suspicious and sign
of intent to commit a crime
When adults see a young person wearing a
hoodie they automatically
stereotype the teen as
“thug” or a “trouble
maker”
the media has exaggerated the stereotype of hoodies so much that it created a moral panic in some
societies.
People forget the real reason for the
wearing of hoodies for example to feel
comfortable and warm during cold weathers.
social realism films 99% of the time if
not all the time conform to the negative stereotypes of hoodies, for example
the protagonist characters that are seen wearing hoodies are normally up to no
good. If you go back to my mood board
you will see a picture taken from the movie “shank” on the bottom left, which
shows a group of teens hooded up armed with harmful weapons and obviously the
body gestures of the group suggest to the viewers that they have a negative
motive.
Evidence
Also
the protagonist characters are generally from a
lower social class, which is
shown by their costumes and
mise-en-scene of the area. In the social realism pictures I have shown
the female actresses conform to the
stereotype of an average female from a materially deprived family which are conveyed to be
quite trashy and ‘ratchet’.
‘Ratchet’ is an urban term used
to describe ‘A diva, mostly from urban cities and
ghettos, that has reason to believe she is every mans eye candy. Unfortunately,
she's wrong’ (www.urbandictionary.com)
Challenging the stereotypes
In
my trailer my male
protagonist
characters
are going to conform to the stereotype in the way they are dressed. The
reason I am conforming is because the
way social realist films dress up their male characters is the same way some
dress in today's modern society, especially in the area my trailer is located
the dress sense is very common. For example a hooded jumper, tracksuit bottoms and casual trainers
I am
going to challenge the way females are portrayed in social realist films. In
most social realist films females are dressed up in ‘trashy’ clothing for
example wearing tracksuits and hats like as you see in the image below
normally the females that are dressed up in that kind of way it influences their lifestyle and results in having no ambition and conform to the stereotype of women dependency on men. But in my trailer I am to challenge that stereotype by dressing up my female character in decent clothing as females are starting to become more independent than in the past and also having ambitions and wanting to play a part in the bread winning role which known to be played by men alone.
