The document discusses how different social groups are represented in a media product. It describes representing the main character's age as a late teen through her clothing of a pink jumper, black leggings and handbag. It shows two contrasting representations of women - one who is mentally unstable and the other who is normal. Both characters are represented as white British girls to reflect the rural setting of a field by a pond in the UK. The goal was to show different stereotypes can apply and not label any age or gender as one stereotype.

1. How does your media
product represent particular
social groups?

2. AGE
The character I played (The victim) was in her later teens, to show
this I dressed stereotypically, wearing a pink jumper, black leggings
and holding a handbag with headphones in. The headphones were
specifically used to show my age and the modern technology of
today, reinforcing my age as teenagers are usually seen as 'glued to
their phones' and obsessed with the latest technologies. I feel we
presented the age of the girl in a clear way allowing the audience
to identify the age of the character and why we included the
clothes she wore and headphones etc.

3. Gender
 In our opening to our thriller there is only one gender, women. However, we
have shown to completely contrasting representations of women; one is
mentally unstable, emotionless and out of control whereas the other is
emotional, curious and how you expect your normal teenager to be.
 Women are usually seen as the victims in thrillers because they are more
vulnerable and scare easy, if we had included a man, the murder may not
have taken place as the male is usually seen as the 'hero' in this sort of
situation.
 However, we used an over the shoulder shot of the unstable girl watching
me as I put my headphones in which suggests that in this case the villain is
also a girl as well as a victim, contrasting to the normal storyline in films.

4. Ethnicity
 Both are white British girls, this may show the area it is set
in as not all areas are mixed race and some are
majority white. The location is a field next to a pond, this
shows it's not a busy over populated area like a city.
Most of mixed race people are in cities and busy
places, so the location used is actually evidence that
the thriller is set in a minor multicultural area somewhere
in the UK.

5. WHY...
 We decided to show these two contrasting representations of the same
gender and similar age to show how a certain age or gender cannot be
labelled as a stereotype for the population of that certain age/gender.
 It shows the audience how there are different stereotypes of everyone. We
want the audience to be aware of the fact that we are not trying to
suggest in anyway that every young girl will someday develop a mental
illness nor are we saying that they won't this is why we included two
representations of the same/similar girls.