The document discusses how characters in media are represented and their social roles. Characters' clothing and appearance automatically communicate their social class and role to the audience. For example, a mafia boss would dress in nice, wealthy clothing while a hitman would dress in dark, scary clothes. Iconography like expensive accessories also represent a character's high social status and role of being in charge. A character's role in the story further communicates how they are represented; in one example, a victim tied to a chair looks vulnerable while an intimidating boss paces around asking questions to show their power and control over the situation. Character stereotypes are also fulfilled, such as black male hitmen dressing in dark colors and committing violence to

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

2. How the characters are
represented
• The representation of each character was well thought out and
planned before doing any filming. Each character has a particular
type of clothing that they should have been wearing this shows the
audience by their appearance what social class they are and what
they are like just from looking at them. These characters can
automatically be realised by the way that they dress for example a
hit man will dress in dark clothing looking scary and trying to blend
in and a mafia boss will obviously dress smart and be looking
wealthy. That is what we did with my character as I was the boss so
I had to have a shirt and tie looking rich and dressing like a boss
would.

3. Using iconography
• The clothing type of the boss will almost be
like an office type look these characters are
often very stuck up and self obsessed they
also believe that the whole world revolves
around them. This is shown by their body
posture and their facial expressions
showing the audience that they are in
charge. These characters rely a lot on
iconography because everything they own is
very high tech and of the highest quality for
example the bosses phone in our film.

4. Character representation through
their roles.
• In the movie taken the man who has
kidnapped the daughter is still being
ignorant and not giving him the
information that he wants. The same with
our film the boss and the girls are asking
tonys character for the information that
they need but yet he still does not give it.
this show by his role how he is
represented because he clearly is stuck
up and ignorant and although he has
already been hurt he will not give it up.
This may show ignorance but it may also
show a lot of bravery as he sticks true to
his beliefs.

5. • the boss in our opening and the boss in taken both have
similarities as the both dress similar and they both look down on
their victim who is on a chair tied up. They both pace around
asking the questions showing they have power this use of levels
really does show this as the boss looking down on his victim
shows the power that he has over him and how vulnerable the
victim looks and how intimidating the boss looks. We tried
something different by taking his top off and showing the blood on
the victim this had a different effect as the audience will feel sorry
for him.

6. • The characters in Attack the block
are similar to the characters in
Retribution. The characters live
up to their stereotype that society
has given them. The black male
characters are the hit men making
them live up to their stereotype as
the being violent and aggressive
which they fulfils when they start
the action in the opening. They
are wearing all dull colours and
their face is hidden, hiding their
identity and everything that shows
in their facial expressions. This
enables them to get away with the
physical violence they are
committing.

7. • The characters in Attack the block
are similar to the characters in
Retribution. The characters live
up to their stereotype that society
has given them. The black male
characters are the hit men making
them live up to their stereotype as
the being violent and aggressive
which they fulfils when they start
the action in the opening. They
are wearing all dull colours and
their face is hidden, hiding their
identity and everything that shows
in their facial expressions. This
enables them to get away with the
physical violence they are
committing.