1. QUESTION 2: HOW DOES
YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
REPRESENT PARTICULAR
SOCIAL GROUPS?

2. He was also not clean We dressed him in a
cut: the beard he builders jacket as part
managed to grow gave of his “disguise”. This
across a scruffier look, also gave him the
which helped build him appearance of a
into a rougher stereotypical “man in
character. a white van”, who are
known for preying on
children.
This character was the only man in
our sequence, therefore
representing the entire gender. We
presented him as a scruffy, dodgy-
looking character as this fit the
ideas and themes in our sequence.
The fact there was only one of him
also showed his dominance over
the many girls presented.

3. We dressed the main She was a literate
girl in a white bathrobe, character, making her
connoting innocence, seem studious and just
purity and also the idea generally like a good girl.
of vulnerability as the This made the horrible
character would have acts in the sequence more
been naked shocking, which was our
underneath. aim.
This was the main female character
in our sequence. She was dressed
appropriately and we presented
her as a studious, stressed
character, which made her seem
vulnerable.

4. The girls in the sequence were
presented as typical “girly girls”,
which meant that the vulnerability of
them in the sequence was paired
with the idea of their gender.
In the rooms were a lot of pink, and
we tried to place as many gender
signifiers in there as possible. For
example, there was the Minnie
Mouse toy in one room, and an
ornate mirror in another.
All the girls in the sequence needed
to be presented as vulnerable to
make the sequence work, which
contrasted with the dominance of
the male character.

5. Uniform logo made the girls seem
more innocent.
We dressed the other young girls in
the sequence in either uniform, or
more revealing clothes.
The uniform look make them seem a
lot younger than they actually
were, especially combined with their
lack
of make up. Two of the girls even
had pigtails in, which is a look
commonly adopted by young
children.
All the young characters were
suggested to have been taking an
advantage of. This means that the
younger generation were presented
in our sequence as vulnerable, and
even helpless.

6. The male character was older than the rest, made evident by his beard,
independence in the sequence and just general look.
He was presented as a fairly dominant character as it was implied that he’d violated
young girls.
This meant that the older age was represented as having more power, whilst the
younger age were represented as submissive and vulnerable.