2. How does your media
product represent
different social groups?
Evaluation Question Two

3. Introduction
A social group is defined as 'people sharing
some social relation.'
Throughout our film the characters portrayed
represent a variety of social groups giving our
film cultural relevance to a wider audience.

4. Student
- When someone mentions a 'student',
the usual connotations we associate
with this social group is that of
laziness and endless drinking, in
'State of Fear' we wanted to abandon
this stereotype and portray our
university student as a hard worker
and intelligent young male.
- Using dialogue of standard english and
utilizing costume ensured that this
representation was effectively
conveyed to the audience.

5. Bureaucrat
- We conformed to the government worker
stereotype of an uncaring and irritable
stereotype.
- The character is clearly disinterested in
his subjects problems, as shown by the
forceful tone in the dialogue suggesting
that this person he was 'helping' was just
another name on his books.
- However, we used slight low angles to
convey a sense of power about him to aid
with the narrative.

6. Agent
- Being careful not to imitate a 'James
Bond' character, we created a
stereotypically mysterious spy in
our film.
- The mystery was presented through
the lack of dialogue and the slow
pan revealing a portion of of the
characters face, but not clearly
enough for the audience to associate
an identity with the character
creating an enigma about who he is,
furthering the tension already
created in the sequence.