The document discusses how different social groups are represented in media. For young females, the author believes their portrayal showed purity through an expressionless model not wearing suggestive clothing. However, some media sexually objectifies young women. Young males are also represented positively by showing the average male through a pose of not caring, rather than just portraying the top 10% as macho. Common stereotypes of females include being sensitive, sexually submissive, liking pink, makeup, and being self-centered. For males, stereotypes include having muscles, being the breadwinner, a deep voice, being tall, and macho.

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

2. Young Females
I believe that I have represented young females in a positive way because I made sure that
my model posed with an expressionless face to show purity and innocence. However, the
same cannot be said for cosmo girl who have positioned the model in quite a sexual way
due to her pose with her hands and the expression on her face. This objectify young
females as sexual objects due to their role models posing In that way in the media. In
contrast to the this I believe that I have represented young females in a positive way
because my model isn’t wearing any sexual submissive clothing and her hair is laid down
so it shows the simplicity of the age I am trying to represent.

3. Stereotypes of Females
1. Sensitive
2. Sexually Submissive
3. Pink
4. Make-up
5. Self-centred

4. Young Males
• I believe that I have represented young males in a positive way because I made
them pose in a specific way which made them look like they didn’t care and so
show the simplicity of such a young age. I did this because I wanted to
represent the average young male and not just the top 10% of males who look
like the model to the left of my image. The image to the left of mine portrays
young males as wanting to achieve the ‘macho’ look and so I wanted to
represent the whole of young males by their pose and the way they look.

5. Stereotypes of Males
1. Muscles
2. Breadwinner
3. Deep Voice
4. Tall
5. Macho