The outfit in which Jordan appears to be wearing is a body warmer hoodie in this shot of his upper body. Id say that Jordan does look like a young black male who is vulnerable to being stereotyped in to a racial category. The hoodie which is the main prop that I want to focus on for this question is to some, a symbol of trouble and connotes violence. The weak implication that this piece of clothing can represent a specific social group who by wearing a hoodie, want to emit suspicion and hide their identity feeds to the negative stereotype of young teenagers and young black teenagers in particular. The audience may reflect that by seeing Jordan, walking through the park and wearing a hoodie, that the film may be based on a gang crime storyline whereas other's may not. Viewers may think that there is nothing suspicious about Jordan and ignore attributing and judging him based on his clothing and the colour of his skin. Within the first few second of this scene, we do project a stereotype however the audience will then go on to learn that ‘’just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum’’.
Jordan has a worried yet surprised expression on his face which only makes the viewer assume that he’s not within reach of safety in this particular shot.
The lonely grey background adds more anxiety to the scene as well as Jordan's body language which is giving off the impression that he is scared and not safe.
