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

2. How can it be shown?
● Through the characters’ personality,
costume, age, gender, ethnicity, social
class
● Representation
● Stereotypes

3. Tom Wilson
Tom is an 18 year old boy who is
misunderstood and a lonely teenager. We
focused on his costume to make this clear to
the audience, we chose to put him in a hoodie
and sports bottoms. We wanted the audience
to label him as a ‘chav’ and for them to
understand his difficult upbringing.

4. Miles Wilson
Miles is Tom’s brother so we had to dress them
similarly and get actors who looked alike for
the audience to establish this connection. We
dressed Miles in jeans so they weren’t
identical and the belt chain makes him look
aggressive and dangerous. We were hoping
that the audience would associate him with
being a gang leader or member.

5. Detectives
If you said the word ‘detective’ to someone
they would most likely describe them as being
tall, male, wearing a hat, a trench coat and
carrying round a magnifying glass. We wanted
to keep these stereotypes but put a modern
twist to them, we got rid of the magnifying
glass and the hat but kept the trench coat and
opted of latex gloves and a notebook.

6. Forensic Scientists
A crime scene wouldn’t be a crime scene
without a team of forensics. We got hold of a
some white building onesies and some
decorating masks to mirror professionals. Our
forensics also wore latex gloves and one had a
camera to photograph the body. We focused
solely on the masks as we used them to reveal
the murderer.

7. Conclusion
To represent social groups in our media
product, we set our focus on characterisation
and costume. We decided that our characters
need to fit in with our target audience and we
achieved this through costume and props. We
concluded that our characters need to reflect
our audience for them to connect with our
media product.