Who do we Represent?

 Who is represented in our project?

Hey fellow bloggers, and thanks for checking out my account once again. I hope you're all having a great day. Today, I'll be talking about who and what is represented in our short film opener. I'll be covering race or ethnicity, gender, personality, and location. I'll also be covering how I'm challenging stereotypes and any edits I've made to my character.

Clearly, our short film represents a Latino basketball player from South Florida. This is somewhat stereotypical, but not completely. Miami is a big basketball city, but its not particularly common to see Latinos in the NBA. By far, the NBA is dominated by Americans who were born and raised in the states, just like their parents and their parents before them. Aside from NBA player Carmelo Anthony (the picture above), who is half Puerto Rican, or the Argentine Manu Ginobili (below), no famous Latino NBA players come to mind.

Like I stated above, we're challenging representation by making our main protagonist a first generation Latino immigrant whose passion is basketball. His actual ethnicity isn't stated, but my parents were born in Cuba and Luis's were born in Venezuela. Both countries have an extensive baseball culture and it's by far their biggest sport. Other Latin countries have a large soccer/football culture and tradition. American sports such as basketball and football are almost never played in these countries, and even less of them ever go pro. Since neither me or Luis's ethnicity has a basketball tradition or history, we feel it isn't typical for us to be fans of the sport.

As far as any edits to improve our character, we don't have many in mind. I think we hit the nail on the head in terms of who and what we wanted to represent. Simply a middle-class Latino from Miami who wants to achieve his goal of becoming a professional basketball player.