The document summarizes how social groups are represented in a film opening. It focuses on the representation of teenagers by age and gender. Young males are shown hanging around stereotypically in hoodies near a cashpoint, potentially intimidating passersby. The female character is first shown as a loving girlfriend but is then revealed to be unfaithful, living up to negative stereotypes of teenage girls. Most characters are represented negatively to set the theme of flaws and unfaithfulness within a close group.

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

2. The two main social groups in our film opening is age and gender.
Our opening features young male and female teenagers, young
people are stereotypically trouble makers and hang around in
hoodies etc. Young men and women have different negative
stereotypes, young men can be seen as lazy and controlling and
young women can be seen as flirty, showing themselves off and
like playing around.
In our opening we have kept to these stereotypes, the gang in our
opening are seen hanging around the main street and in hoodies.
We chose to dress the characters this way to stick to the
stereotype and help the audience understand the characters
background.

3. The female in our opening is first represented as a loving girlfriend
but then the audience soon realises that is not the case, she is
then represented negatively through her actions. She is shown to
be unfaithful to Ray, giving the audience negative feelings
towards Chaz.
The males in our opening are shown as ‘hoodies’ hanging around
in the streets causing a disturbance for others wanting to use the
town cashpoint as they are lent up against it, potentially being
intimidating for some passers-by. This represents them in a bad
way, sticking to the stereotype of the age group teens.
When the audience first meet Ray he seems the dominating
character in his relationship, he appears to be leading the
conversation between the two and has is arm around her.

4. When we later see what Chaz is doing, she is living up to the
negative stereotype of teenage girls as she is going behind her
boyfriend’s back and is meeting someone else, one of Ray’s
friends. This makes the audience warm towards Ray and have a
bad feeling about Chaz and Lakeem.
When Lakeem arrives in the scene a thud in the music gives a feel
of unease and make the audience sense that he might be up to
something, the same then happens when he looks over his
shoulder to check Ray and his friends had gone.
This music represents him badly and the clothes he is wearing also
helps this, he wears a big black jacket, easy to hide behind.

5. Most of the time in our opening our characters are represented
badly, we did this because our film is all about unfaithfulness, and
flaws within a tight knit group of people.