The document discusses how different social groups are represented in the group's media product. It notes that the group consists of 2 males and 2 females ages 16-17 who are white and straight. It states that the villain in their thriller is Freddie, a 16-year-old male, which plays into stereotypes of young males as criminals. While this stereotype makes the story believable, it presents young males in a negative light. Initially, women are portrayed as weak and vulnerable, but by the end the female protagonist outsmarts the male villain. Blondes and those from lower classes are also initially stereotyped but later subvert expectations.

1. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
(gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity etc)
Evaluation Question #2

2. General Information About Our Group
Members and Social Groups
• In our group, there are 4 people.
2 males (Myself and Freddie) and
2 females (Alex and Alanta).
Myself, Alanta and Freddie are 16
years of age, while Alex is 17
years of age. Everyone in our
group is White (British). Also,
everyone in our group is of the
Straight sexuality. Also, we all
come from working class
backgrounds.

3. How Young Males are viewed within
Society
In our thriller, the villain is Freddie. Freddie
is a 16 year old male. In the thriller, he
steals Alex’s handbag and runs away,
thinking he can get away with it. This is a
stereotype in modern society as male
teenagers are often looked down upon by
society. There are often news stories of
where you will hear young males of
Freddie’s age committing crimes such as
burglary, assault or even murder. Young
males are often looked down upon by
other social groups because of this and
people usually don’t want to get involved
with these types of people.

4. How we present Young Males
• We decided to use this stereotype
within our film because we feel
that it would be very believable.
It would be believable because
young males can be seen as
villains in the real world so it
would be easy to believe that a
young male is the villain within
our film. This stereotype of young
people is shown to be very
negative because young males are
stereotyped to be troublemaking,
dangerous people who have no
care for anyone but themselves.

5. How Women are viewed within
Society
• In society, women are
viewed as the weaker sex
compared to men. They
are often viewed as not
being as physically strong
as men. Women are
sometimes viewed as
being very weak and not
be able to defend
themselves and easy
targets. Sometimes,
women are also viewed
to be not as mentally
smart as men.
This picture shows Freddie (the
man) stalking Alex (the woman).
He thinks that she is an easy
target because she is a woman
and he thinks that she is weak,
and won’t be able to defend
herself.

6. How we present Women
In the start of our film, we present
women in the way that society sees
them. In society, women are often
seen as the weaker sex in terms of not
being able to defend themselves and
being easy targets. This is proved as
Freddie is easily able to steal Alex’s
handbag. Alex (the woman) is
identified as the easy target by
Freddie. However, by the end of the
film, women are seen to be smarter
than men as Alex is able to outthink
Freddie and is able to get him killed.

7. How Blondes are viewed within
Society
• In society, blondes are often seen as less
intelligent than their brown hair counterparts.
They are often said to make inadequate use of
their intelligence and be more prone to making
silly mistakes. A typical saying of blonde people is
that “blonde people rely on their looks rather than
their intelligence”.

8. How we present Blondes
At the start of the film, we use the stereotype
as Alex (who is a blonde) is shown to be
helpless, dumb and vulnerable and she has her
handbag robbed. However, we manipulate and
subvert the stereotype as Alex is seen to be
very smart as at the end of the film when she
says “Yeah, yeah it’s done” proving to the
audience that she is actually a smart blonde.
She proves this because Freddie has been
killed by myself leading to the idea that this
was Alex’s plan all along therefore proving
to outwit Freddie. The stereotype of “The
Dumb Blonde” is usually thought of as
negative as they are portrayed as being
stupid, but Alex is shown not to be and is
actually smart.

9. Class Status
• We also show different classes in our film.
For example, Alex is shown to be from a
middle class background. We can tell this as
she has a nice car, expensive phone,
expensive looking handbag and a nice dog.
On the other hand, Freddie is shown to be
from a lower class. We can tell this as he is
shown to look not as higher class as Alex.
This is down to the hat he is wearing as it
doesn’t give him the look of middle class.
Also, due to his actions of stealing, this is
seen as something that someone of a lower
class would do, and not something that a
middle class background would do.