This document evaluates how a media product represents social groups. It represents teenagers as vulnerable and irrational, choosing to portray them as susceptible to stress and mental disorders. Males are represented as initially reckless and violent but also vulnerable. Females are portrayed as the weaker victims. These representations conform to stereotypes of gender and teenagers. However, the film also aims to challenge stereotypes by showing how psychological disorders can affect males. The social group representations are meant to link to the target teenage audience by having a teenage main character for them to relate to.

1. Evaluation Q2:
How does your media product
represent particular social
groups?
By David Brady

2. Social groups represented?
Teenagers – teenagers are represented as being vulnerable, young, irrational
people as the main character is a teenager who stabs another teen. We
chose to represent teenagers as they are seen as reckless, dangerous and
anti-order, however in our film we wanted to embody that and include the
idea that they too are vulnerable to stress and mental disorders. Which led
our character to become psychotic.
Males – males are represented in our opening as reckless and violent yet also
vulnerable. We chose to represent them in this way because it is easy to
portray males as violent and reckless, as it is a stereotypical view that males
want to fight for dominance. Moreover we wanted to show that even the
reckless and violent can suffer too.
Females – females are represented as the weaker sex, as the victim. Although
we don’t have a main female character we represent them as weaker as she
was killed before the film opening. We choose to do this because we
researched and saw that females are usually victims and we conformed to
this.

3. Stereotypes?
Gender – Gender was represented in a stereotypical way as the man is dominant as he
is the one who is doing the killing, whereas the female is shown as being weaker as she
was the first victim. Although we try throughout the opening to convey that the man
can be effected by psychological disorders. Which challenges the stereotype as it means
that the man is weaker than the girl.
The tear has connotations of
being weak or vulnerable. This
shows that we challenge the
stereotype

4. Stereotypes Part 2
Teenagers - one stereotype that we conformed to with our teenaged character is the
stereotype that all teenagers carry knifes and stabs people. We conformed to this as
the weapon our antagonist used was a knife.

5. Link to target audience?
The social groups that we represented link to our target audience because the main
character is around the same age as target audience. We feel that having a teenager
main character allows the audience to relate to him and this will help attract more
teenagers to see the film. It will hopefully also create a more realistic feel to the film
as the audience can relate to some of the stresses that he is suffering from.
Typical clothes and hair
styles, that teenaged
boys can relate too.