1. How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
2. Overall aims
A lot of the social groups we aimed where to
do with our specific audience we believe
would watch our film. Our aim was to get
across these three themes to our audience,
class, gender and setting. We showed all
three themes through two characters and
both characters are linked to the themes
throughout the film. For example, the
conventions of a sports film consist of
providing an athletic image, which is shown
by both of the girls within the film. This
athletic image is also inspired by Fast Girls as
there are a variety of personalities within the
film, therefore we used an idea from each
personality and behaviour too make ours
more original.
3. Class theme
Class- social class is a key theme in our film as it shows what the
characters are like. The point of using class in our film is so that we can
get the message to our audience that everyone has the chance, whether
they are from a fortunate or less fortunate background. To show class we
used a range of different factors such as costume, make up, setting,
characteristics and locations. If we compared the two characters used in
our film, it will show the different in class that we attempted too portray.
In our film we used a split screen to show the difference of class and too
make it clearer for the audience who was meant to be who, in terms of
class. We also used the use of camera and editing techniques instead of
just location and acting, too show the difference in backgrounds. The
clean shot it is to show a higher class but the slightly fuzzy shot shows
the lower class. Also, we used the weather too our advantage and shot
certain different scenes on particular days to correspond with the class.
We got the idea of comparative class from Fast Girls as one of the actors
comes from a more rural central city background and the other comes
from a countryside wealthy background.
4. Gender theme
Gender- gender in the film is a key theme as the only man shown in the opening is the coach
and our film is mainly biased around girls because of our influence fast girls and the fact that
we felt a new girl dominated sports film should be realised.
Gender is mainly shown through the two main characters and the female and male coach. We
chose a male coach instead of a female to show what some people may think of society today.
Our male coach is supposed to be shown as the “better coach” and this is only highlighted
thorough the body language of either coach. Comparing both of them too each other shows
the difference in backgrounds which was our morale message. But for a lower class coach we
chose a lady too be the less fortunate actors coach, as we thought we needed to present
feminism more efficiently throughout the film.
5. Setting Theme
Setting- the setting we used for our film was varied due to the characters differences. The whole
film is set in the city, this is just to show how there are two different classes within the city.
Renae’s setting- Renae is biased with being within the posh and more expensive part of the city
where she can afford the best coaches and best facilities. This is shown through the comparison of
back to back footage of the two opposite girls. For example, Sophie was mainly based within
Sophie’s setting- Sophie is in the slightly rougher part of the city where she trains outside. Her
part of the city is a lot darker and colder.
As the film continues the storyline will become clearer as it will show the family life a lot more and
the difference between the girls.
