Monday 29 April 2013

Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?



How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents a range of social groups, for example; gender, age, social class and ability. Our media product represents particular social groups a particular one is age for example teenagers because we do not have any adults or children in the product. So we have used contemporary stereotypes of teenagers for example a teenage girl dies first, this is to match the gender stereotype of a female being weak and powerless, the other stereotype we have used is age because the girl is a teenager and they are usually stereotyped as inexperienced and unconversant. The social class of our characters is very similar they are all working class characters we know this because of the costumes they are wearing, they fit the stereotypical representation of teenagers. Below is a screenshot of our final draft of me and Lindsay, this reinforces the point of our final draft representing the particular social group of teenagers.