Question 2

Q2)

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents gender roles in a reveresed way, this being instaed of having a typical strong male being the attacker, we have chosen a women to be the killer to go against stereo typical views and have the victim played by a boy. The women in this is represented as a mysterious person to create the mystry around her and prompt the audience to ask questions about her too who she is, we do not show her face in the sequence and we frame it so not much detail is revealed around her, she also wears dark colours as these are considered more negative compared to bright colours.

These representations will promt more questions about the girl being the killer as it is not seen that often and therfore something new and the male in it people will feel sorry for as they have been killed for no reason which is again unusual because they.

Whilst the boy is shown as a typical teenager who has grown up in an urban area where they would be considered a ''chav'' who has to much attitude, this is a common view asociated with teenagers so we have used this in our film so that it appears more realistic and relatable. In the clip we have the boy played as the victim which you would not exactly expect to see as males are often portrayed as the attacker especially on the street at this age so to have the roles reversed presents something new to the audience as they will not be very familiar to this.

Teenagers in this are represented in a typical way to how the public would see them in their eyes due to all the negative publicity they receive on the news. The teenage social group is made out to be this group that can not be trusted and are willing to break the law no matter what the consequence is. This follows stereo typical views because of this.

Because we have two males in the sequence we have portrayed them in different ways, this showing the one as the typical teenager who has been assaulted which the public would expect to see getting into trouble and this age and then the other teenager played by Aaron is represented as the good teenager who abides by the laws  and someone who goes against the stereotypical view to show that all teenagers are not all aggressive and that they can be trusted but due to what is shown in the news they are represented in the wrong way.

The character here played by Aaron has been made to wear very casual clothes to show that he is an innocent teen rather than putting him in a hoodie ad track suit bottoms which is commonly worn by teenagers who are considered to by the typical teenager that gets into trouble quite often and can't be trusted.

 He wears light colours which are perceived to be more innocent  to add to the point that he is not the common teen and thus abides by the law.

Then we have the typical teenager played by Molly, she wears dark colours to reinforce the point that she isn't good compared to Aaron and we do not show her face to add onto this further that she is a mysterious person that that you do not actually know what she is thinking similar to the stereotypical teenager.