How does your media product represent particular social
1. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?
2. In our film opening we represent social groups
through different characters within the three
protagonists. This is done by camera shots and
angles, mise-en-scene, editing and sound so we
could show the ideas of social groups.
3. We come to the first character which is Scarlett, who is a
‘un-employed’ and a lower class protagonist. We
decided to represent her as an unemployed individual
as this would reflect contemporary British society in
relation to the recession and economic crisis.
4. We were also aiming to represent her character as
different from the other two protagonists so the audience
were able to understand her class and status. Through
camera shots and angles we wanted her to seem
powerless; we have a really high angle long shot when
she is looking out to the sea, making her look smaller to
everything else around her and the audience looking
down on her.
5. The characters dress codes were important too as we wanted
her to look different from the other two characters in terms of
status. The slight high camera angles in some shots like the
beach scene were important to reflect her as a weak character
and not dominant like the others. Sound was also important,
her dialogue on the bridge and at the beach were verbally
given out childishly, showing again her low class status.
“What is there to
sought out!?!”
6. For the character of Autumn we wanted to represent her as a
stereotypical higher class individual who are seen as bad people
in many films like „The Devil Wears Prada‟ in which Meryl
Streep‟s character is a wealthy businesswoman who only cares
about her job and wealth, instead of the family and people that
surround her.
7. Again, we did this through dress codes with her red
blazer, jewellery and camera angles. The slight low camera
angles of her in the shopping centre and also, during the
conversation on the bridge which makes her the more dominant
individual out of the three, representing her as a high status
person but also in a bad way.
8. “Great, its you”
Her verbal communication was also important and when
saying “Bloody Hell” when receiving a text from Flo to
get across she really didn‟t want to meet with these
two, connotes the differences in social classes. Also, the
bridge scene when she sees Scarlett and says “Oh
Great, it’s you”, showing she is not pleased to see her
conveying the fact Scarlett is low class and Autumn is
high, showing the differences.
9. We wanted to convey Flo as a middle class individual – a
person the audience would relate too – but a motherly figure to
the other two and ‘authoritive’. Many of the close-ups we used
were to show the non-verbal expressions she gave, showing her
worry during the bridge scene.
10. For Flo to be different from the others but not over
dramatically, Flo‟s dress codes were „basic‟ showing her
as a „down to earth‟ individual but still different from the
others. The editing came important to represent Flo is well,
during the argument with Autumn and Scarlett, we have
much more high angles on her to show she is being
„downgraded‟ by Autumn, showing Flo does have
weaknesses like all people but a strong woman also.
