The document discusses how a media title sequence represents particular social groups to its target demographic of 15-25 year olds. It represents distressed teenagers, broken families, and young adults suffering from traumatic experiences. Specifically, it represents age by having a 12-13 year old boy and 16-17 year old girl to target different age ranges. It represents gender by portraying the young female as suffering from psychological problems more than the male. It represents family as broken, with the siblings living alone without parents to show the struggles they face without adult guidance.

1. How does your media product
represent particular social
groups.
By Lissie Archer

2. In our title sequence of ‘The Childs Eye’ we hoped to represent particular subjects
directed at teenagers and young adults. As our target audience was 15-25
year olds we aimed to have relatable topic towards that demographic.
Our sequence represented typical norms:
• Distressed teenagers
• Broken families
• Young adults suffering from traumatic experience’s
What we needed to capture was the audiences emotions, so through the
characters we chose and the setting realism was created in a domestic
environment.
We represented:
• Age
• Gender
• Families
• Psychological disorder

3. Representation of Age
The actors we chose to play each role would
marginalise the age group we were trying to For the girl character we aged her
target. Having young actors represented a
teenage status and showed a stereotype of 16-17, this would target the older
young adults being distressed and over demographic. Having the human
exaggerated. monster be older then the
We chose the age of the little boy to be 12-13, protagonist represented a
this represented his innocent and caring
personality as in the title sequence he is the
authority and control over the little
character being traumatised. For the boy. It showed young adults to be
targeted demographic he could represent a distressed and dramatic, and
younger brother making the fear even more gave the representation of that
realistic. Focusing on this age could
represent young children as being proem to particular age to be violent and
unfortunate family situations. It also shows hysterical.
the age to be vulnerable.

4. Representation of Gender
Having the 17 year old girl as the human
monster gives off the representation of the
young female society to suffer from
psychological problems and distressing
times more than males. It represents a
teenage to have more of an unhinged mind
then children as the little boy is being
traumatised by the older girl.
The characters are both male and female given
an even balance to social groups and
represents the relationship of these siblings
to be disjointed. The young boy is obviously
very worried and scared for his sister, this
represents him as being kind hearted and
human whereas this girl represents her
gender to be quite selfish.
The fact that the girl uses a knife as a weapon to
herself shows her as violent and her self
harming shows her to be mentally disabled.
The fact that they clearly live without
parents help shows them to be mature as
well.

5. Representation of Family
It is clear that the boy and the girl live together
and are of some relation, this represents
siblings of this age to usually repel each
other. It shows that they clearly struggle as
a family and are living in fear or stress.
The fact that you never see parents or older
adults around represents a broken family, it
shows 2 children suffering from different
problems without parents. This represents
children as becoming psychologically
challenged without an adult guidance.
At their age living alone could show teenagers
as being stripped from the world, tossed
away from adults. In this title sequence the
representation of family is been made to
look tragic and overrated. It shows that
young adults don’t appreciate adult
guidance and tend to be lead astray by their
own thoughts and emotions.