The document discusses how the media product represents social groups in terms of class and status, gender, and age. Class is represented through the characters' clothes and social circles. Gender is portrayed through the contrasting bubbly and reserved main characters, with one taking care in her appearance and the other not. Stereotypes of girls' jealousy and care for looks are also explored. Age is relevant as teenage girls are more prone to jealousy and insecurity, though the film breaks the stalker stereotype of being older.

1. How does your media product
represent social groups?

2. The opening of our film focuses mainly on 3
representations:
- Class and Status
- Gender
- Age

3. Class and Status
• Although this may not be evident from the first 2 minutes of our film class and status is
represented in it.
• Jennifer wants to be Tiffany because she thinks that Tiffany is better than her in all ways – she
is prettier, richer, more popular etc, however it is not until the end that it becomes clear that
Tiffany may be all these things on the outside but on the inside she is a lot deeper and has
had a troubled life. Tiffany is jealous that at least she has a family that loves her as she was
domestically abused when she was younger which shows that even though her class and
status is higher, to her she would ditch it all to be with a family that loves her.
• Jen, and Tiffany’s clothes represent class and status as Jen stays in dull, dark and basic clothes
the whole way through whereas Tiffany varies her outfits at every opportunity she gets.
• Tiffany is also always with friends as she has such a high social status whereas Jen for the
majority of our film is on her own in her dark room as she has no friends to talk to or help
her through her hard times.

4. Gender
We have used to ends of the spectrum when choosing how to portray our character. We chose a bubbly, outgoing girl
and a dull, reserved girl as our characters as we thought that this contrasted well. However we broke away from the
usual stereotype of a man stalking a girl as we felt that this had been done in films to many times.
We had to make sure that Jen
looked as conventionally
‘normal’ as possible as we did
not want it to be obvious she is a
Girls usually take care of stalker so we made sure her hair
their appearance so even was long with potential to be
though we made sure Jen nice, however throughout the
was wearing makeup we film she takes no care over it and
also made sure that she leaves it greasy the majority of
applied it messily and it was the time which girls don’t tend
dark and grungy to make to do.
her stand out in a subtle
way.
Jens clothes are baggy and dark which
Stereotypically girls tend to get jealous suggests that she doesn’t care about her
of other girls easily. Jen matches this appearance. Girls are stereotyped to spend
stereotype as jealousy is what the film is time getting ready and taking care over the
based around. She is jealous of a girl she way they look but as we can see from the
has known the majority of her life but picture Jen rejects this stereotype and it
has never been friends with. She goes to looks as though she got ready in about 5
extreme lengths to look like her like minutes which is the look we were going for
dying her hair. the whole way through the film.

5. Gender
When Tiffany has her hair down it
is very long although we showed
her with her hair up to represent
that she tries different things and
spends a long time getting ready.
Her makeup is subtle and natural
and emphasizes her best features. It looks like she has spent a lot of
time getting ready and picking
out what clothes she is going to
wear. Tiffany looks feminine and
girly so matches the stereotypes
of girls.
Tiffany meets the stereotype of girls as Tiffany is holding car keys which
girls are portrayed to care about their suggests she is old enough to drive.
appearance and look after themselves. In Girls are also stereotyped to like to
the opening of our film, Tiffany does not have fun and go out so therefore this
act , there are only pictures of her on the suggests she is on her way out to have
wall so we had to illustrate that she fun with friends.
matched stereotypes of girls through her
appearance.

6. Age
• We thought it would be better to use girls that are
teenagers rather than women as teenage girls are
stereotyped to get jealous easily so therefore this fitted
well with our film.
• Teenage girls also tend to have body insecurities and low
self esteem which is what Jen starts off as having but then
progresses into something scarier and more serious.
• We have broken the stereotype again in the sense that
stalkers tend to be older than there victims whereas Jen
and Tiffany are the same age in our film.
• Age is a big representation throughout our film as Jen
wants to fit in with her age group and be popular like
Tiffany is.