Question 2 of the evaluation of ThreeSeven

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

2. Films are usually aimed at a particular group of people and can represent specific social groups these are
the people who will most likely be in the ending of the film. Films choose to represent different social
groups dependent on the genre of the film or what they would want to represent a specific social group.
In ThreeSeven we only represent the teenage generation of the modern day and try to show the ways in
which they have changed.
The social groups in which ThreeSeven is representing is the teenage generation of the modern day which
falls under the category of age and we also represented regional identity, gender and also the working
class. There are two main characters throughout the film and all the characters are between the age of
15-19 and therefore that is the social group our film is set out to represent. There are different variables
in which you can take advantage in order to represent a group that the film decides and in P.A.J
Productions situation its teenager.
The ways that we represented the social group is as criminals, mischievous, arrogant, immature and
unaware of what matters with life. We showed this through the use of Mise-En-Scene by using costume
to our advantage as both the characters are wearing tracksuit bottoms in which in modern day they are
referred to as looking informal and the sense of mischievous behaviour. The way our characters are
presented in the final product is that they are the stereotypical teenager from the West Midlands which
means that they are quite mischievous and are immature for there age we wanted to show this because
that is how they are portrayed in real life and in ThreeSeven P.A.J Productions wanted to accomplish that.
Question 2- How does your media product
represent particular social groups?

3. There is also a sense that ThreeSeven represents the working class as this social group are stereotyped as being
money obsessed and will do anything to get money to help support their families and the product shows this
through the criminal activity that occurs throughout the two minutes. In the sequence you can see that the area is
deprived as the buildings are quite run down and therefore would represent their regional identity as well. We did
this in order to show people what actually happens to people and what choices people have to make and this makes
the working class look bad in the media but all that they are trying to accomplish is to look after their families and in
the actual film we would want to demonstrate this through using the four micro decisions that are camera, editing,
sound and Mise-En-Scene.
We represented gender through the use of casting. We casted to typical teenage male characters and also no female
characters were used during the sequence. These were done deliberately to represent the way male teenagers are
presented and this is as quite strong, powerful and crime obsessed and not big thinkers in situations that need
thinking, for example the character borrows money of a top drug dealer in the area, now this is not ideal as he has
now got into trouble with the wrong sort of people and this represents the stereotypical male teenager and this is
what we proved with our plot of the story.
Our media product represents age, gender, working class and regional identity throughout the open sequence. We
represented the age of the characters as troublemaking immature people because that is how they are represented
in the media and we wanted to display this. We represented gender by not using any female characters in the
sequence and we used two typical lads that are into violence and crime. We represented the working class by the
plot of the story to show that the working class are money obsessed and want to ensure the well being of their
family and we represented their regional identity as the typical West Midlands area, quite ran down and deprived
we did this because that is what it is like in the area.
Question 2- How does your media product
represent particular social groups?