Our media product represents particular social groups through its portrayal of gender, age, race, sexuality, and class. Specifically: - It only includes masculine male characters wearing suits, representing gender. While suits typically connote power and wealth, the run-down setting creates oppositional readings. - It features one black character, showing more power than the white character through handling drugs and winning a card game. This reinforces stereotypes about race and criminality. - Camera angles are used to literally look down on the white character gambling, constructing him as having little power in the criminal situation.

1. Our media product represents
particular social groups with
the use of five elements of
representation that are
gender, age, race, sexuality and
class.

2. A way in which our media product represents
these particular social groups is with gender.
The reason that it represents gender
is as the title sequence/film only has Masculine , male characters are and there are
no females or femininity. An example of this that is constructed with mise
en scene is the fact that all the men in the title sequence/film are wearing
suits which ideology classes as being a masculine style of clothing that also connotes
power , importance and authority. However in our title sequence/film circumstances a suit
doesn’t necessary show class and wealth. This is where our film has oppositional readings
as even though our characters are wearing suits the situations and locations that they
are surrounded with are low class like the dark and run down gang hide out which
contrasts with their high class suits.

3. A way that our media product represents another particular social
group is with race. An example of this is the fact that there is only one
black person in our title sequence/film. Although the white gangster
who is hunting there gang members down is the most powerful
over all and then there is also the other white gang member that is
gambling with the black gang member, the black gang member is showing
more power over the white gang member.The reasons for this is because in
the shots the black gang member is handling the drugs which connotes power
and authority over the white gang member so therefore this perpetuates the
black man as the criminal who is also the only gang member to be seen drinking
his alcoholic beverage, whisky which connotes masculinity as ideology pins
whisky as a male alcoholic drink as still carries the connotations of America’s early
attitudes toward liquor that it is not lady like to drink this type of beverage also its
often the older generation that are seen drinking whisky especially in old fashioned
films and it has powerful wisdom attached to it. The black gang member is also the
one who wins the card/poker game that is in play between them as they both place
down there cards down in a domino effect but the black gang member
has the better hand and then takes the winnings. This leaves the white gang member
the less powerful race, which adheres to common ideology in gang culture.

5. The use of camera also constructs different social groups. An example for this
is when a high angle shot is used over the white gang member that is playing
cards and gambling in the hide out. This connotes that the white gang member
has alow percentage of power and allows the audience to literally look down
on his behaviour, and the criminal situation he is in, surrounded with illegal drugs
, alcohol and gambling.