The document discusses the representation of social groups in a film opening sequence. It describes the main characters as young, lower-middle class British teenage girls who enjoy hanging out with friends, drinking, and taking selfies. A male protagonist is meant to be disliked by audiences as he is dressed so his face cannot be seen. Close-ups were used with the female characters to show their feelings, while flash effects were used with the male character to create tension. The characters reinforce social stereotypes, with the females depicted in typically teenage girl ways and the male seen as potentially dangerous.

1. How does your
product represent
particular social
groups?

2. What characters have you included in your film and what
social groups do they represent?
• The female characters in our opening
represent young British teenage girls, of a
lower-middle class who present an interest
in hanging out with their friends and
drinking at home whilst listening to music
and taken selfies.
• This is representative of the majority of
teenage girls of this day and age, making
our opening relatable to our target
population.

3. • Our male character in our opening,
represents a minority of teenage boys,
he isn't a relatable character but this is
our aim as he is the protagonist in the
film so the aim is for the audience to
dislike his character.
• We dressed him in a way that you
couldn’t see his face so the audience
could not connect with him.

4. How have you constructed ideas about
your character through mise en scene,
camerawork, editing and sound?
• We manipulated the audiences perception of the male character Ben by
hiding hid face from the audience
• However, with the female characters, we were sure to use a number of
close-ups in our opening sequence as this allowed the audience to
explicitly see how the characters were feeling
• Editing also played a huge role in portraying ideas behind our characters,
whenever Ben was seen on the screen, we used a flash effect to
emphasize the tension to the audience
• We represent the girls as middle class teenagers as the are dressed well
and stereotypically to that gender at this time
• The props used in the living room scenes where the girls are seen smoking
and drinking, portrays an idea that they are slightly naughty and like to
have fun

5. To what extent are your
character
representations typical
of your film’s genre?
• The characters in our film opening
deviate from real life films of the same
genre
• It is typical in a film of this genre for
women to be dressed in sexy and
sometimes slightly revealing clothes and
to be of an older age, however this did
not work for our opening as the
characters are younger and are dresses
in clothes suited to their age group

6. In what ways do your representations
reinforce or challenge social stereotypes?
• Our opening sequence suggests that teenagers can
be naïve about what dangers they can come across in
day to day life situations, it portrays a message to the
audience to be more aware of who you are spending
your time with and to think carefully before doing
anything that may effect others.
• Our characters are represented well as
stereotypes, especially the females as their language
and actions around each other and the way they are
represented visually is typical of females their age.
• Ben is also represented as a social stereotype of a
teenage boy he could be potentially dangerous to
others within society.