2:) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents particular social groups in a specific way, just from our main character we can tell what type of social group we are representing. There are many ways in which he represnts this social group. Through what clothes he is wearing and how he acts, we can tell that he is part of a rough background and is seen as more as a lower middle class person. Through what he is wearing, the way he speaks and even the way he runs/walks it represents a particular social group of how a teenager is seen as wearing hoodies, low jeans and looking pretty messy. Furthermore through the environment we have used represents the type of social groups that may be seen in these places. Late in the evening and hanging around town is typical of groups of teenagers with their hoods up and are seen are michevious. Our character represents a teenager criminal and this is also seen from the diegetic language used in our media product which is implying that he has bough an illegal item and is running away from someone. This represents particular socials groups such as teenagers, criminals and others that would watch it. Many people assume that a teenager with their hood up and hanging around town must be up to no good and is a criminal, we used this in our media product to suggest to the audience that our main character is of that social group, however of course it is not true that he is a criminal but to the audience we do get this impression.

We also represented social groups through the music that we used as well. We thought carefully about the genre of music and how wel it would flow with the continuety, not only did we think of this we also though about what type of music our audience and the main character would listen to, so that the audience would be able to relate to the character. We used a more energetic feel of music to our intro. As this type of music is very popular with younger audiences this means that they are able to relate to it.

Here is a shot of what we wanted to get our main character to look like (pictured left) in doing this it makes the audience not like the look of him and instantly have an opinion on him that he is the antagonist because f the steriotypical view on them. However, later on in the film the audience will realise that he is instead the protagonist and their steriotypical view was wrong. As you can see the main charcter in our film (pictured right) is seen with his hood up this connetes that he is michevious and up to no good. we tryed to make our main character seem like the antagonist our intro.