The document discusses how the media product represents particular social groups in the opening scene. The opening scene contrasts two female characters - Ella Brown portrays a stereotypical weak female, while the other character, Leila, played by the author, is strong and independent. Both characters wear makeup and dress in a feminine way to represent how "women are supposed to look pretty". Ella speaks quietly, representing the stereotype that "women are quieter than men". However, Leila challenges stereotypes by being outspoken and collecting wood, tasks usually associated with men. The opening scene purposefully only includes female characters to represent women's independence without male characters.

1. QUESTION 2-
‘How does your media product
represent particular social groups?’

2.  In my opening scene, I contrasted a stereotypical female with an un-
stereotypical female in my opening scene. Ella brown who is the role of
young girl Millie- is a stereotypical weak female. However, my role of a
teenage girl is strong and independent.
 ‘Women are supposed to look pretty and be looked at’- Both female
characters are both wearing make up and are dressed quite girly to portray
‘male gaze’. I wanted to use this in my film to demonstrate the stereotypical
females, however I contrasted 1 of the characters to be powerful and strong,
yet girly.
MY OPENING SCENE-
Gender=females
Here Leila is playing
with her hair, to
demonstrate her ‘girly’
side.
Leila wearing make up
and her hair down dressed
in ‘girly’ clothing yet is in a
male stereotypical setting
(forest).

3.  Ella brown- who portrays Millie is a stereotypical female. Reasons being;
Millie is demonstrated as a weak, Worried, young teenage girl who’s
becoming weaker and weaker as the days go on.
 ‘Women are quieter than men and not meant to speak out’- I used this
statement in my opening scene as the character Millie very really ‘speak[s]
out’ and when she does, for example when she’s vlogging- she speaks
quietly. I included this to show that although there is no male characters,
men are still more dominate then women are (stereotypically).
MY OPENING SCENE-
Gender=females
Millie,
vlogging
dressed ‘girly
and pretty’

4.  However, the other character Leila played by me (Lucy Skinner) is the
opposite to a stereotypical women. I contrasted these 2 characters to
demonstrate the theory ‘Levi Strauss’. My character Leila is a strong,
independent female who travels alone to save the world.
 ‘Women are quieter than men and not meant to speak out’- I challenged this
statement and made my character a vocal individual, instead of a man being
the ‘outspoken’ one.
 Leila also goes to collect wood to create a fire, this is also un-stereotypical
for a female to do.
MY OPENING SCENE-
Gender=females
Leila
searching for
wood in the
forest.

5.  In my opening scene, I didn’t use any male characters. Reasons why; I
wanted to challenge the film industry as they ALWAYS have a male
dominate character, I contrasted this with only having female characters but
I used male settings, for example the forest. I did this, because I solely
wanted to represent women in my opening scene, to show independence
and that women are capable of being strong, not just men.
MY OPENING SCENE-
Gender=males

6.  My opening scene has two 17 year old female teenagers acting as the two
main characters. I did a young age to represent real life struggles, as if this
scenario happened in real life- teenagers would be more ready for it, as they
have a higher interest and ability to know what to do through all the post-
apocalyptic films out in the film industry today. My target audience would be
13-21 year olds (both gender), as my opening scene is based on young
teenagers.
MY OPENING SCENE- age

7. o My opening scene has a few different nationality's represented.The two
main characters (me and Ella Brown) are both white, British. However, when
I travelled to London to film my vlogging scene, in the background are
different nationalities. For example, there is Asians and Indiana's in the
background of my vlogging scene.This makes my film more realistic as there
are different nationalities being portrayed. However, I mainly included just
British people as 93.6% of the Uk population is British.
MY OPENING SCENE- nationality