Media AS evaluation question 2 - How does your media product present a particular social group?

1. How does your media product
represent a particular social
groups?
By Jack Swingler

2. The groups I’m comparing to
Social
Class
Race
FamilySexuality
Gender

3. Social Class
 Throughout the production there are multiple times were we dip into the aspects of social class
and areas that we choose specifically to give the production an overall theme that we want.
 Through the use of iconography and Mise-en-scene we chose to give the ‘Alleged rapist’ smart
sensible clothes which depicts a sensible working class and even upper class man who has a
respectable job which requires him to look smart (Stereotypically) and portray the best image
for the company as he is on show. While these people found in the upper class are generally not
found t commit as many crimes but we chose to elaborate on the idea that he had a ‘mental
breakdown’ something which is common with people who have very demanding jobs.
 In ‘The purge’ we see the neighbors of the victims gang up and kill someone, this was set in an
area which is wealthy with large houses and multiple cars. The actions from these upper class
citizens are something which is also not typical and something we went along with, as anyone
in any class could commit a crime.
 The detective could also be seen as a middle class man who has worked hard to achieve his
goals and to be at the place he works. This is a very typical person who works for the police and
is a very common sight today. He upholds a more sophisticated look with a tie and remains the
most professional person within the room at all times when compared to the attacker who is
‘scruffy’ and has a messy appearance

5. Gender
 While both characters within the opening are both male, we
will use a more varied gender throughout the rest of the film,
and is something we have improved next time with more
genders within the beginning.
 Now the stereotypical male rapist is something which is heard
throughout the society daily and is a common though when
you think of a ‘rapist’, we chose to use this stereotype in our
production as it conveys the general perception of a rapist and
the audience will understand it easier and realize what crime
he has committed.
 We believe on reflection that we could have used a women but
either way it still would produce the same outcome, yet maybe
with a women more of a shock with the crime?

7. Sexuality
 The idea of sexuality is not apparent in the opening but is one
that we do address, we make use of both heterosexual and gay
relationships in the film, but with the ‘alleged rapist’
abduction a girl then we get the idea that he is straight. While
most characters don’t have any love or relationships during
the film we do have a few and these all follow the general line
of relationships. As we use more types of relationships in our
production is demonstrates how our film is open to all
relationships and is not discriminating or shielding the
audience from the types of sexuality.
 We do portray the ‘rapist’ as being heterosexual, as it
continues the stereotype of a man victimizing a younger girl,
which is found is many films such as ‘The orphan’ when the
‘orphan’ seduces her father, something which goes against the
male being the rapist but continues the heterosexual
stereotype.

9. Family
 Throughout the production we use the use of family to get the
audience to emphasize with the grieving family, as more than
one people are affected by the assault.
 Families within our prediction are shown as being a part of the
victims, not the main victim but a collective group of people who
feel the young girls pain. These people are demonstrated as being
‘one’ and stand united while trying to get revenge on the ‘alleged
rapist’ which then leads to even more problems.
 Families, especially the women are stereotypically shown as being
protected by the men in the family and when they are abused
then the men begin to get angry.
 We also focus on how families can fall out and have their up’s and
down’s throughout their lives and especially during this moment
they experience many up’s and down’s.

11. Race
 Lastly race is something which we don’t vary in the
opening with Caucasian men in the opening, but as
soon as we move on we begin to see a varied
amount with all different races and ethnicities.
 We present the white male as being someone who is
sexually driven and one who knows they shouldn’t
but still performs illegal actions, while there are
hundreds of stereotypes for all different races and
ethnicities we don’t follow any of these and focus
on anyone being able to commit any crime and not
just based on their race.