The document discusses how different social groups are portrayed in a film opening. It represents teenagers as independent, responsible, and mature as the main teenage character protects a child from danger. Children are portrayed as vulnerable, oblivious, and naïve as the child character is spoken to in a controlling manner and does not understand the danger. Joggers are shown to be in a state of threat, playing into the stereotype that joggers are often portrayed as being in danger due to jogging in isolated places like woods.

1. The Evaluation
Questions
By Danika Gibbons

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

3. Social Groups Portrayal –
Teenagers:
In my film opening one of the main characters is
a teenager. My media product represents
teenagers as a social group as independent,
responsible and mature since she has the
responsibility to take a junior out alone.
Furthermore, she protects the child from the
danger they both face at the end of the opening
by running away with her, proving this point of
maturity.

4. Social Groups Portrayal –
Children:
Our film opening represents children as
vulnerable, oblivious and naïve as throughout
the child is spoken to using controlling terms
‘come on, keep up’ and ‘Lily stop’. The oblivion
of the child character is proven towards the end
of the film opening as she does not know the
danger she is in and seems to be in a state of
confusion.

5. Social Groups Portrayal –
Joggers:
In the introduction of our film the two joggers
shown seem to be in danger, this is a typical
stereotype about joggers. People commonly
see the chance of joggers being in a state of
threat due to the settings of their jogs, such
being secluded places like the woods at
night/early morning, the times when it is easier
to commit a crime without being seen.