The document discusses how different social groups are represented in a student film project. It describes portrayals of a student, bureaucrat, and agent. For the student character, it aimed to avoid stereotypes of laziness by depicting an intelligent hard worker. The bureaucrat character conforms to stereotypes of being uncaring but uses camera angles to convey a sense of power. The agent character was created to be mysterious rather than mimicking James Bond through limited dialogue and partial facial reveals.

2. How does your media
product represent
different social groups?
Evaluation Question Two

3. Introduction
A social group is defined as 'people sharing
some social relation.'
Throughout our film the characters portrayed
represent a variety of social groups giving our
film cultural relevance to a wider audience.

4. Student
- When someone mentions a 'student',
the usual connotations we associate
with this social group is that of
laziness and endless drinking, in
'State of Fear' we wanted to abandon
this stereotype and portray our
university student as a hard worker
and intelligent young male.
- Using dialogue of standard english and
utilizing costume ensured that this
representation was effectively
conveyed to the audience.

5. Student
- The media will often portray a
stereotypical teen, for example; a youth
with an unending party addiction such
as the characters in E4's Skins.
- However, our character would be more
toward the other end of the spectrum
in terms of steretypes, being likeined
to The Inbetweeners characters
because of his interlect, but opposing
to this, our charactaer is not socially
awkward.

6. Bureaucrat
- We conformed to the government worker
stereotype of an uncaring and irritable
stereotype.
- The character is clearly disinterested in
his subjects problems, as shown by the
forceful tone in the dialogue suggesting
that this person he was 'helping' was just
another name on his books.
- However, we used slight low angles to
convey a sense of power about him to aid
with the narrative.

7. Bureaucrat
- The media, and in particular, journalists,
can be cruel to government officals, giving
them a stereotype of an upper class,
distanced from the public type of person,
which is reflected in our film with the
uncaring stance and costume.
- We based our character loosely on the
character from Anthony Burgess' novel;
A Clockwork Orange, 'P.R Deltoid' who
was employed by the governmant but
didn't seem to care about the individual
with "many more on his books".

8. Agent
- Being careful not to imitate a 'James
Bond' character, we created a
stereotypically mysterious spy in
our film.
- The mystery was presented through
the lack of dialogue and the slow
pan revealing a portion of of the
characters face, but not clearly
enough for the audience to associate
an identity with the character
creating an enigma about who he is,
furthering the tension already
created in the sequence.

9. Agent
- As previously mentioned, we aimed
not to mimic James Bond, but there
are obvious similarites, one of those
being the costume.
- It's possible to liken our character to
a real MI5 agent because of the
mystery surrounding him, as the
real agents will often blend into the
background and not be the
prominant people as portrayed in
the media, although, it can be
mocked, as seen with Johnny
English.