Evaluation Question 2

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

2. Main social groups
• Gender : Through the three main characters in our opening,
there are two males (even though we don’t see either of them,
only one as a child) and the sister which we do see. This shows
that the female is a lot more important and significant in the
opening. Through the mise-en-scene the audience also
understands her meaning as it gives away other areas like status
and regional identity.
• Class and Status : Through mise-en-scene, we are able to gather
the characters social status and class; the clothes that the sisters
where clearly displays that she is able to buy expensive items
and therefore proves that she is of high status. It also comes
across as professionalism and also makes the audience assume
her purpose in the opening is to be one of the people to try and
help solve the mystery.
Also, the person who has been taken and the opening is based
around, during the home videos is shown to where clean white top
and shorts, this also emphasizes the class and status as they have
been well kept and look new.

3. • Age : The two characters that we see is the man who goes
missing when he was younger during the home videos
sequence, and then the sister in London. The age of the two
characters signifies a comparison and contrast in time that has
passed, showing that the innocent kid is no longer like that and
has grown up and got himself in trouble. It shows that adults
have to deal with the real world and act responsibly.
• Regional Identity : As some of the opening is set in London and
then the other in New York, both locations represent different
stereotypes. Oxford Street is known to be a wealthy and of
higher class because of the shops and retail that they have
there, also that it is a very touristic place – shown by the
amount of people that were there. Comparing it to New York, it
is also a place of high tourism which makes it similar to Oxford
Street. It is shown also to be a place of business workers, which
also reflects their class.