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

2. Constructionist theory
• The constructionist theory tells us that the representations are reality. The
opinions of the producer are affected by the context at the time, and the audience
choose whether or not to accept these representations or not.
• We can apply the constructionist theory to the characters within our production
such as; the businessman, Ethan, and Ethan’s foster parents.
• However it doesn’t just need to be people that we can apply the theory to, we can
also apply it to the train station where the majority of opening sequence was
filmed.

3. Businessman

4. Ethan

5. Train Station

6. Can your production be read as
hegemonic?

7. • Our production has one main hegemonic ideology which is created by the
businessman. Upon the introduction of the businessman the binary opposition of
Privileged VS. unprivileged is instantly established and we can see the clear divide
in society between the upper and lower class. The businessman wears a suit and
waistcoat and carries around his briefcase with him which contains all of his work.
Whereas Ethan on the other hand simply wears casual clothes with his backpack
which contains a spare set of clothes in. This shows that people who are within the
upper class or A-B income bracket are much more fortunate than those who are
only in the C2-E income bracket, also they have many more opportunities for more
things for example the suit that he wears or the job that he owns. All of this looks
at the ideology which tells us how people from a worse upbringing with less
money and opportunity are supressed and don’t have a lot of options and just
have to take what comes their way. Whereas people who are within the A-B
income bracket have many more options to choose from and can dictate people
like our antagonist does within our opening sequence.