Our opening sequence serves to represent certain social groups through use of characterisation and our characters' roles in the narrative
Ethnic Minorities:
In our sequence, our second detective was of Sri-Lankan descent, and servers to represent ethnic minorities in our sequence, as the theme is relevant to our setting, as London is a known multicultural centre. To an extent, this character positively represented, as in our sequence he is a government agent, which is a very specialised occupation showing his success even at a young age. Furthermore, the agent is characterised as a professional who keeps his cool in hard situations, which juxtaposes our first detective, who becomes paranoid and overly aggressive when he realises they are being tricked. 
This character is comparable to Nick Memphis from 'Shooter' (2007), a government agent of Latin American descent who instead decides to help the protagonist as he tries to take down corrupt government officials.
With this in mind, it is clear that our representation of this ethnic minority could be improved. By having something similar and having the detective play a central role as as an assistant to the protagonist, incorporation character development within, we could have accomplished a subversion of racial stereotyping, but by killing off our character during our opening sequence, we closed all possibilities surrounding this. Nonetheless, by adding in an Asian character, our goal was to establish the Britain that our film was set in to be multicultural, which is accurate in Britain today. I believe by adding our character in this way we have at least achieved this, which would also be important to global audiences in order for them to understand our setting.
Gender:
Our characters were all male in this opening sequence. and they were presented in the same overall way, but in different groups within that. It is clear our characters are not afraid to use violence where they deem it necessary, and their overall demeanor categorises them as as the type of men that would 'shoot first, ask questions later', meaning they are quick to show their dominance and resort to violence without thinking of the possible repercussions This also anchors the theme of courage to them, but the thin line between courage and stupidity is crossed somewhat with their behavior in the sequence. Our two agents, although very similar, show the binary opposites of attitude while under stress. One of the agents tries to retain his composure and think logically, while the other attempts to intimidate the protagonist through waving a gun around.
One thing that was lacking in our sequence was most definitely a female character, although after careful consideration our group couldn't find an appropriate place without over complicating the sequence or changing the idea significantly. To compensate for this we would most probably have had a female high ranking government official as a central role in our movie, were it to be made.
Age:
Age was something that on the most part we couldn't adjust much due to the availability of actors, but instead we adapted what we had to aid our narrative. We show the two different ends of the spectrum in regards to professionalism through our characters.
Although all of our characters are wearing suits, showing some degree of professionalism it is clear through our dialogue that the agents are inexperienced, low ranking members of the government as they had not been given clearance for the Intel of what they are searching for.
Their inexperience can also be perceived through their reactions to the situations, whereas on the other hand our protagonist remains calm in the face of potential danger, and is confident knowing the agents have walked into his trap, showing how he knows exactly what he is doing and has succeeded by doing this.
In terms of age representation, young people are both shown as inexperienced and aggressive, yet at the same time shown as courageous and professional by our protagonist.
Age:
Age was something that on the most part we couldn't adjust much due to the availability of actors, but instead we adapted what we had to aid our narrative. We show the two different ends of the spectrum in regards to professionalism through our characters.
Although all of our characters are wearing suits, showing some degree of professionalism it is clear through our dialogue that the agents are inexperienced, low ranking members of the government as they had not been given clearance for the Intel of what they are searching for.Their inexperience can also be perceived through their reactions to the situations, whereas on the other hand our protagonist remains calm in the face of potential danger, and is confident knowing the agents have walked into his trap, showing how he knows exactly what he is doing and has succeeded by doing this.
In terms of age representation, young people are both shown as inexperienced and aggressive, yet at the same time shown as courageous and professional by our protagonist.
