Evaluation question 2

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

2. Age
• Unfortunately our group were restricted by access to actors
and extras of the appropriate age for our film. We
acknowledged that our actors were too young, however we
could not do anything about it.
• To assess this problem, we included a party scene because
parties are associated with young people and youth. This
helps with the creation of verisimilitude.

3. Gender
• Our main character is a strong female who
doesn’t like to party or dress up, she wears
trousers, with her hair tied up instead of the
dresses and long hair that female characters
are portrayed as having. In most real media
products, females are represented as weak
and dependent on others, with ‘soft’ and
feminine traits.
• She is a female detective inspector in the
1920s. Detective work is a male dominated
profession, especially in the time period of
our film.

4. Race
• Another of our main characters, the detective’s boss, was
played by Solomon, who is biracial. This represents this social
group as being just as capable as any other race in the
workplace, whereas people who are not white in other, real
media products are represented as being less capable, or of a
lower class. Also, in the 1920s, people were still very racist,
we challenged this by giving him a high status role as a boss.

5. Social Class
• The title of our film is ‘Cluedo’, after the board game. Like our
film, the board game is a murder mystery.
• Within the game, the characters’ names are quite middle class
(eg: Professor Plum etc.)
• The class that is associated with the game is the middle and
upper middle class, so we used a location and costumes that
conveyed wealth.