How does your media product represent particular social groups?

1. Evaluation question 2
BY
Toby Shepherd

2. Representation
of social groups
My media product represents
social groups by using a variety of
people from different social
backgrounds (race, gender, age)
and representing them in a certain
way, which would create
connotations of that social
background, whether it is their
gender, race/ethnicity or age.

3. Race/Ethnicity
Race/ethnicity is portrayed in our media
project by having a black character as
one of the three main characters in the
production, this it self connotes that
black people have an equal status and
are as importance as white people in
our production, which challenges
stereotypes where black people are
seen as been thuggish and inferior to
white people. However the black
character also adheres to stereotypes of
being thuggish as he uses a gun in our
media production which connotes that
the character is powerful and dangerous
and also connotes that the character is a
thug as firearms are illegal to carry in
public.

4. Age
Age is represented in our production mainly in the police office scene as this
scene features a young male character that is a detective and an older male
character that is the chief of police. The main character who is the detective, is
portrayed as being more important through the use of the dialogue as he is
being given this task, which the plot of film is based around. This challenges
common ideologies that older people are more important as the younger
character is being given this important police assignment. However common
ideologies of age were adhered to as the older character was giving orders to
the younger character, which connotes that older people are more powerful
and more intelligent than young people.

5. Gender
Gender is represented in our production by
having only one female character present
throughout the entire performance, this
connotes that whilst in England they are quite
an even mix of males and females they are not
seen as being as important in our production.
This adheres to the ideology of patriarchy as
do many English media products such as TV
and film and also media created in western
societies such as USA as these countries are
patriarchal and therefore most media tends to
represent gender this way. An example of a
film of a similar genre is The Dark Knight, this
film has one woman who is of significance and
she is left to die so a more important character
can be saved who is male. This connotes that
men and more important than women. In our
production the one female character is shown
to be harassed by the three male anarchists
this connotes that males are more powerful
than females.