This document discusses how several media characters represent particular social groups: - Jason replicates the characteristics and appearance of the Joker from Batman. The actor was able to perform the craziness of the character. - Annabel represents the "damsel in distress" stereotype from Scream accurately through her actions, though she is a different ethnicity than the original character. - Christina subverts the stereotype of Pepper Potts from Iron Man by having power and killing the antagonist, rather than being subordinate. She is dressed professionally like Pepper. - Bryson fails to replicate the power and nobility of Superman/Clark Kent, as he is weak and vulnerable, though his hair and clothing match the character.

1. Question 2
How does your media product represent
particular social groups?

2. Jason Máson to The Joker
For our character Jason, we tried
our best to train our
actor to perform just like
‘The Joker’ from Batman.
Our actor found it quite easy to replicate the characteristics of The Joker as he
wasn't a stranger to the characteristics and background of the joker. Our actor performed
excellently to show the craziness of the original Joker.
From the pictures above, you can see that we used make-up and hairspray to the best of our
advantage to actually replicate the image of the Joker, also made sure that our actor had the same
ethnicity as the Joker.
We also had inspiration from the actor Liam
Neeson in ‘Taken 2’. From the pictures you can
see that we performed actions very well to show a
sign of revenge, just as it’s performed in the film.
Also choosing a character of the same ethnicity.

3. Annabel to Casey Becker
For our character Annabel, we wanted her to conform to the characteristics of Casey
Becker from scream. In scream, Casey Becker performed accurately to ‘a damsel in distress’.
You can see from the 2 pictures that the actions of both characters
are very identical. We tried our best to replicate Casey Becker, however,
the only difference is that we didn’t give Annabel the ability to fight back
like Casey did in scream.
Overall, I believe we replicated the stereotype of ‘a damsel in distress’
excellently, however, we didn’t pay great attention to ethnicity. However, it
didn’t effect performance or image.

4. Christina to Pepper Potts
For Christina, we tried our best to
replicate Pepper from Iron man. We
failed to actually follow the
characteristics of pepper and
constructed a totally different
character. We were able show
dominance is Christina by her
actually killing the antagonist. We
successful portrayed the stereotype of
Pepper Potts subverting women
having power. We dressed our
character quite professionally to
conform to Pepper’s representation.

5. Bryson to Clark Kent
We failed to replicate Clark
Kent through Bryson. Our
reasons for this is because,
last minute we decided that
Bryson is knocked out after
a seeing Jason and that
Christina “saves” the day at
the end by shooting him. We
also failed to replicate the
figure of superman,
Powerful and Noble,
whereas, Bryson is weak
and vulnerable.
One thing that was
successful was replicate his
image. Our character has
dark hair and clothing just
like Clark in the picture.