Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Age/Teens
The female teenager that is introduced in the first opening scene is shown as a perfect role model as she is well dressed sounds well spoken and performs a high skill of horse riding this does not usually meet the stereotypical teenager that you see.

You then see the change in her appearance and her actions as she introduces her friends. Her actions change as they are loud and aggressive. She seems to get in lots of fights when seems under threat and start to shout and scream aggressively  The appearance of her changes dramatically as she enters a different kind of class. Her clothing becomes baggy and revealing. This matches the stereotypical youth/teenager of today as many people feel threatened by the so called 'hoodies' and this is what we was trying to portray in our film.










Gender
Nearly 100% of the character that are seen in this film are females this challenges the genre of Crime Drama as you usually see males through out these. This does not meet the stereotypical character in a crime film as males are used for the aggressive behavior and violence where as we have challenged this and used females. This type of behavior is negative because of  all the violence. The one male that is used is presented as rough looking and is wearing similar clothing such as jumpers and joggers. This connotes that he is from a rough area or a lower class.

Social class
In scene 1 the social class that is introduced is upper class we portrayed this image by dressing the character in formal clothing and wearing no make up to show innocence to the audience. The main character has a good posture and is well spoken to. The setting also matches the class as the character is riding at a equestrian center this connotes money and a good up bringing.

In scene 2 the social class introduced is lower class and we portrayed this image by changing her appearance to wearing baggy clothing to hide who they are. The use of make up also got a lot heavier this is to show that she isn't as innocent as you think she is. The locations also change from a rural area to a urban setting. The main section of this scene is filmed in a park which matches the stereotypical teenager getting into trouble in a park.

 Ethnicity
In scene 2 three different types of ethnicity's are introduced Black British, Chinese British and White British this shows that the environment they are in accepts different ethnicity's and are multicultural and they all get into the same trouble and there is no racism.

conclusion
As a hole i think that our opening has a varied presentation of gender, social class, age and ethnicity. We have actors ranging from various ethnic groups and have produced an accurate representation of social class from A/B to D/E.