The document discusses how the media product portrays teenagers. It represents teenagers as scruffily dressed, wearing hoodies to hide their identity, and sitting in an agitated manner that makes them seem violent. These negative portrayals leave the audience viewing the main character, Nate, as a potential antagonist. Similarly, characters in other films and real teenagers depicted during riots are shown as violent, intimidating, and dangerous while dressed scruffily. Overall, the document argues that the media product conforms to negative representations of teenagers as unnerving and scary that are common in other films and real life.

1. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
The social group of teenagers
Daniel Rayson

2. My Character:
This is my character Nate, he is around 19 years of age so
still classed as young-adult/teenager. He is dressed scruffy
with a hoodie and trackies on looking like he hasn’t made
much of an effort. This screen grab creates these sorts of
ideas about teenagers:
•Scruffily dressed doesn’t make much of an effort.
•Wearing a hoodie, maybe doesn’t want identity known
which can be meanacing.
•The way he sat shows he is agitated and possibly violent.
These points all create negative feeling towards the
character of Nate leaving the audience wondering that if
because of his appearance and the way he acts could he
be the antagonist in the thriller? Overall the
representation of the social group of teenagers and youths
is quite negative making them seem disrespectful and
threatening.

3. Another character from a different
film
To the right is a screen grab from another film
called Kidulthood which again represents
teenagers as:
•Violent
•Meanacing
•Intimidating
•Scruffily dressed
•Holding a baseball bat making him dangerous
and threatening.
Again all of these points create a very negative
feel towards the social group of teenagers
making them appear to be unnerving and scary, I
think this conforms well to my thriller as this was
the kind of feel we was trying to portray of Nate.

4. A real life person from the social group
To the right is an image I took from the BBC
news website and it is an image of a teenager
during the London riots. It is a very menacing
and violent image I think, showing danger and
the teenager himself looks very intimidating. The
social group of teenagers is portrayed in a
negative light aswell in real life, again like my
thriller and the other movie the teenager is
dressed scruffily with their hood up not wanting
to show their identity which can be very
threatening. My thriller again conforms and
represents this group rather accurately to how
the group of teenagers is portrayed in other
films and also in real life like on the news.
Overall the social group of teenagers has rather
a negative light upon it.