Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

1. 2. How does your media
product represent
particular social groups?
There are 7 main social groups: Age, Gender, Ability/disability,
Race, Sexuality, Regional identity and social economic class. In
our film we concentrated on age and gender and wanted to
show them in a positive way. We didn't’t focus much about the
other social classes as they didn’t fit in with our narrative.

2. Gender
 In our film we have 4 characters which are all male. This could
stereotypically show that women don’t really fit in an
action/thriller film. This could represents women and supports
the stereotype that men are the more dominant gender.
 All the camera shots in our film are focused on men which
indicates stereotypically that women are not as important as
men in action films.

3. Gender
 The agent and teacher in our film are both male which could
show stereotypically that women cant take on important roles
and again supports the stereotype that men are the more
dominant gender.
 Also in our film we use a lot of low angle shots which could
make the male characters look powerful and superior which
stereotypically show that men are superior to women.

4. Age
 In the storyline the main character could represent how
young people are less caring as older people. When the
student sees the memory stick he ignores the homeless
person and picks up the memory stick and walks off. It may
also represent that young people are sly as he stole from the
homeless man as he was unaware of it. This could show how
young people are not very caring or respectful. Another
example of this is when he walks in and throws his bag down
which indicates he doesn't’t respect his things and may have
an attitude problem.

5. Age
 At the beginning of the film, the music is fast
paced and loud following the main character
which tells the audience a lot about his character
as well as building tension. The diegetic sounding
has a high tempo and sounds electronic which
reflects the music which younger people listen
to. The fact that the music has a high tempo and
fast paced indicates how aggressive younger
people are.

6. Economic class
 The homeless person in the film is sat on a bench and is surrounded
by empty alcohol cans. This could stereotype how homeless people
have drinking problems. Also the homeless man is wearing dark and
plain clothes compared the main character who wears bright clothes
to indicate how nobody notices or cares about the homeless people
these days, the clothes which shows how mysterious his character is.
 Also the camera doesn’t really show the homeless man which could
indicate how their not looked up on but avoided in modern day
society. Also there is low angle shot of the main character next to
the homeless man which could indicate how the is the dominant and
superior in this situation.