This document discusses how social groups are represented in the media product. It notes that the group consists of 2 males and 2 females, all aged 16-17, white and straight. It describes how the villain in the thriller is Freddie, a 16-year-old male, perpetuating the negative stereotype of young males as troublemakers. It also discusses the stereotype of the "dumb blonde" applied to the character of Alex at the start but subverted when she is revealed to have outwitted the villain, challenging the stereotype in a positive way.

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

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. Young Males
• 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. 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.

4. The Dumb Blonde
• We use the stereotype of the dumb blonde in our film but we also
manipulate it and change how the stereotype is seen. At the start of the
film, we use the stereotype as Alex (who is blonde) is shown to be
helpless, dumb and vulnerable and she has her handbag robbed. This is
the stereotype of a blonde, as they are often associated with being stupid
and not very smart. However, we manipulate 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. This
smart plan proves that Alex isn’t the stereotypical dumb blonde as it
proved to be a very good plan. 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 stupid and actually quite smart so this is a positive.