1. EVALUATION
QUESTION 2 – SOCIAL
GROUPS
How does your media product
represent particular social
groups?
Rhesmika Liddington

2. The representation of a social group is shown through the
gender, age, ethnicity and social class.
Our opening sequence represented the characters social
groups by focusing on the mis-en-scene and the costumes

3. Research
Our research showed us that the mis-en-scene, location
and the costumes were the most important thing to give a
real feel for the social group. We tried to use our research
for our own prouduct

4. Location
After looking at the research I completed I noticed how
important the location was. In our opening sequence we
have tried to se a more urban atmosphere, after looking at
the different possibilities we decided to film in a town which
would has this atmosphere..
One of the main scenes in the opening sequence is the
abandoned pub, this shows how it wasn’t well looked after,
which would have the same representation on the
community as a whole

5. Location
We tried to keep the other locations fairly simplistic as we
didn’t feel that there needed to be lots going on in the
background as this would drag the audiences attention
away from the story line and the footage would be busy
enough with the short snappy shots.

6. Costumes
The costumes for all of the characters also show the social
class. We asked all of the actors who were in the gang to
wear baggy jumpers preferably with hoods. This made
them appear as a unit as they were all in similar clothing
which really shows the audience what kind of
people/characters they are. We also asked our main
character to a similar sort of thing however without a hood
and then something that would make him stand out. This
differentiated the two sorts of people that were being
portrayed.