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

2. A – Upper Middle Class- Well paid professionals e.g. doctors and solicitors.
B – Middle Class- Fairly well paid professionals e.g. teachers or office managers.
C1 – Lower Middle Class- ‘White collar’ workers e.g. office workers and nurses.
C2 – Skilled Working Class- ‘Blue collar’ workers e.g. electricians and plumbers.
D – Working Class- Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers e.g. Shop assistants, factory line workers and rubbish collectors .
E – Unemployed/receiving benefits e.g. pensioners, students and those unemployed.
My character from my media product would belong to the social class ‘E’.
This is because the character will clearly be unemployed because she is very
mentally ill, not capable of having a steady job. Also throughout the opening
sequence you cant see the character eating any high class food or wearing any
high class clothes. The characters age would prove that she should be at
school, or in some form of education. However, she is actually on her own all
the time, so she clearly doesn’t go to school and have lots of friends.
SOCIAL CLASS?

3. I think that in some ways my media product represents the character as a
counter type. The reasoning for this is because when thinking of a
stereotypical girl you would expect her to be blonde, wearing pink and very
ditsy. This for my media product is defiantly not the case.
On the other hand the despite the character being a countertype I also don’t
feel that she is represented very positively. This would make the character
regressive. This is because being represented as crazy isn't what people would
want for themselves.
TYPE?

4. The fact that me as the character for the opening sequence is a girl may
suggest that I girls are a part of a lower social group. This is because you
wouldn’t naturally expect someone of high class and status to be mentally ill
running about on her own. You would likely expect her to be with someone to
protect her, with friends. This means that my media product can effect the
representation of females and there social group. Stating perhaps they don’t
belong in a higher social group.
GENDER

5. My media product can also effect the representation of age. The character is
in her teens, she is running outside alone, clearly she is very unstable. Ripped
clothes, and messy hair would suggest again that she is of a lower social class.
This could give off the stereotypical idea that teens are all of lower social
class, like this character.
AGE

6. Ethnicity is also represented in my media product. As a Caucasian character
this means that the low class representation could be depicting Caucasians in
the lower class region. It is common for people to think that mainly white
people are at risk of mental issues. However, although your ethnicity does not
change your mental health, my media product does reinforce that a Caucasian
person again has a metal illness, This gives the character again a lower social
class of being different and having something wrong with her.
ETHNICITY