Our film represents late teens (16+), particularly females, as it focuses on peer pressure and where that can lead. The protagonist, Rosie, is a middle-class 17-25 year old girl who gets involved with the wrong social group and her life spirals out of control without her family's knowledge. Scenes in a cafe show Rosie being judged by her peers, particularly her selfish and bullying friend Imogen. The film portrays stereotypical teenagers as rebellious and irresponsible through scenes where Rosie ignores her mother's advice and acts recklessly at a party due to peer pressure. Props and music were chosen to appeal to a younger audience and portray the social group Rosie has become involved in

1. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?
By Lucy Fegan

2. WHICH SOCIAL GROUPS?
 Our film represents one particular social group. This would be late teens
(16+), particularly females. This is because our film is centred around peer
pressure and what this can lead to. Teenagers suffer the most with peer
pressure as they do not want to be considered an outcast at a time when they
are the most vulnerable and confused about themselves.
 As our intended audience is mainly females aged 17-25 we found it would be
more effective to tell the story of a girl of this age. It may also appeal to males
of this age as well due to the nature of the film. This is because as it
progresses it will become more fast paced and action packed.
Here is the protagonist of
our film in one of the
deleted scenes.

3. The protagonist in our film (Rosie) has been brought up in a
middle class family, however due to the particular social group she
has found herself involved with, her life goes off the rails without
the knowledge of her family until she is at her worst point.
Although the shots in the cafe were not used in the final edit they show
how Rosie is being judged by her peers, this is shown through the
facial expressions from each character. Her friend, Imogen shown on
these screenshots is portrayed as selfish and a bully.
These scenes would be used further on into the film.

4. STEREOTYPES
 Our film is very stereotypical on the image of teenagers. A high percentage of society
see teenagers as rebellious, lazy, egocentric, irresponsible, and totally focused on
trivial things like fashion, material things and socialising. Our film could possibly portray
teenagers in a bad light although White Lies could also help teenagers. Meaning if they
are in this situation they may look at this film and realise that they are being
irresponsible and that their peers do not have a say in everything that they should do.
 By meeting Imogen in the cafe, Rosie ignores what her mother has said about using
the money wisely. This justifies the stereotype of teenagers always disobeying authority
 The flashback that Rosie has when she sits at the side of her bed tells us that she is
not as much of an innocent character as we once thought. Everyone at the party is
acting irresponsible and this portrays teenagers as uncontrollable and
reckless, furthermore Rosie falls under the spell of peer pressure here which questions
the value of friendship that teenagers have.

5. PROPS AND SOUND
 We wanted to use a song called British Intelligence by Jamie T in our opening
because we were inspired by this genre of music for our film. We have here
stereotyped teenagers that like this genre to be involved in the world of drugs.
However we couldn't use this song due to copyright reasons so we made our
soundtrack using Garageband. We tried to stay clear of using classical
instruments as we wanted to attract our younger audience. We used electric
guitars and drums to give the soundtrack a rock edge.
 Rosie at first seems like an harmless teenager and this is shown through the
props we have used. All of the items in her bedroom are white and
cream, portraying the image of an innocent girl. This is then juxtaposed when
they see the real character of Rosie further on into the scene.
 We have also used modern props such as her phone to portray to the
audience what type of social group she is involved in. As peer pressure is a
big element here Rosie would feel like she needed to have the latest phone or
she could be seen as an outcast. The protagonist doe not want this hence
she is using the money her parents left her wrongly.