1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Phoebe Stannard
How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
Question 2
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2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Phoebe Stannard
• Financial Status is represented in my
media product, the main character is
shown in a small almost one bedroom
house on a busy road, which indicates
that she is not that wealthy and is most
likely having money problems living by
herself.
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Financial Status
• I have filmed the
small house from
across the road so
then the audience
know that the house
is by a busy road.
• I’ve edited my film
opening to slowly
cutting away, moving
closer to the house so
the audience can
understand how small
this house actually is,
understanding this
characters life.

3. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Phoebe Stannard14/04/2014
General Economic Status
• General Economic status
is shown in my film
opening, the status is
poor and is set in a not
so clean place, it is set in
a urban area where
housing is very small and
not so expensive.
• Suggesting that life to live
here must be pretty
difficult and dangerous.
• The area looks rough and a place
where you wouldn’t dare walk
around at night, with out the
thought of being attacked.

4. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Phoebe Stannard14/04/2014
Gender Divides
• Through out my film opening
females definitely are the main
focus.
•From the start it opens with the
main character asleep in her
bed.
• Even in the flash back it is the main character and her female
friend, the only male through out the film opening present is the
perpetrator. Even then the audience can only propose that the
perpetrator is a male as they do not see his face.
•The film opening
is dominated by
female roles,
proposing that the
rest of the film is
going to be
dominated by
women rather than
men.

5. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Phoebe Stannard14/04/2014
Age
• Age is shown in my film opening, the first
introduction to a character is of a young girl in a
bed.
• We know that this girl is a
teenager or young adult
as there is a cutaway to
various items on her bed
side table showing a
book, sunglasses, catalo
gue and a phone.
• In the flash back it also shows the age
of the characters as there are two
young girls walking very drunk and
happy on their way from a night out.
The audience can clearly pick out that
these girls are teenagers or young
adults.

6. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Phoebe Stannard14/04/2014
Perpetrators • There is a perpetrator unknown presented in my
media product, the perpetrator is first shown
through a text popping up on the victims phone.
• There is a perpetrator
unknown presented in my
media product, the
perpetrator is first shown
through a text popping up
on the victims phone.
• For emphasises the phone is shown with other
various items on the bed side table and then there
is a extreme close up of the phone and text,
suggesting perhaps the perpetrator is near.
• The perpetrator is shot from different angles but
not once does the audience have a glimpse of his
face.
• When the perpetrator is firs
presented he is shown walking
around the corner in the tunnel,
proposing the idea to the audience
that perhaps he has been waiting
for a victim.
• He is dressed in a black hooded
coat and jeans, he has his hood up
so you cant see his face, clearly
suggesting to the audience that
this man is the perpetrator.

7. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Phoebe Stannard14/04/2014
Victims • Victims are represented in
my media product, my main
character is a victim of a
mugging where her friend
dies.
• To show she is a victim in the
first few moments of my film
opening the main character
receives a text when she is
asleep, from an unknown
number.
• This then disturbs her
sleep, which tells the audience
that this unknown person actually
has disturbed her in her own
mind.
• The flash back is then showing the main character and a
friend in a dark tunnel, which whenever someone enters
and area like this predictably something bad is going to
happen, showing that these two girls are going to be
victims.
• After her friend is murdered, the main character
looks directly at the camera which then blurs to a
graffiti painting in the tunnel of a skull, representing
that death has come and now effects the main
character.