The document discusses the representation of social groups in the author's film. There are two main characters - David Star, a Caucasian middle-class boxer from London, who is the protagonist representing good; and Tank, a lower-class youth of Caribbean origin involved in criminal activities, who is the antagonist representing evil. The supporting characters around David would be middle-class family and friends with no particular attributes, while those around Tank would be part of a gang and thus mostly young, low-class/working-class youths of mixed race, challenging stereotypes.

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

2. Dominant Representation
There are two dominant representations in my film
and they basically stand for good and evil.
The protagonist is David Star and the antagonist is
Tank, although they are of a similar age they are of
different social backgrounds.
The other characters that would feature in the film
would linked to the backgrounds of the main
characters. For example Tank would essentially be
considered friends with thugs and gang bangers
whilst David could be considered a more friendly
family man.

3. David Star
David Star is a similar to the famous
Rocky character, however David is
younger.
David Star is a Caucasian working/middle
class person who grew up in south east
London as part as a big family. He is fairly
well educated and essential fits the
middle class stereotype although he is
still street wise.
Because David is a boxer he would come
across as being very masculine and can
be considered a typical alpha male.

4. Tank
The Tank character is of a lower
class background and is often
involved in criminal activities.
Tank can be considered the
antagonist in the film and he
represents evil similar to the
Drago character in Rocky.
The character Tank is of
Caribbean origin and can be
relied upon to fit the negative
stereotype of young urban youth
who get mixed up in gangs. Tank
also dresses the part which
reinforces the stereotype and his
aggressive attitude suits
attributes of the alpha male who
fears nobody.

5. Supporting Cast
The characters that will come
under this category would be
the people associated with
the main characters.
David Starr is the
protagonist in my movie
so he has to come
across good and pure to
our audience and
therefore will be
surrounded by
characters who fits this
stereotype. This would
be middle class family
and friends of no
particular race or age.
However Tank, who is the
common stereotypical bad
guy, is part of a gang ands
therefore surrounded by
gang culture. The characters
therefore are mostly young
low class / working class
youths of mixed race which
may challenge the
stereotype of audiences
expecting to see young black
males.

6. Supporting Cast
The characters that will come
under this category would be
the people associated with
the main characters.
David Starr is the
protagonist in my movie
so he has to come
across good and pure to
our audience and
therefore will be
surrounded by
characters who fits this
stereotype. This would
be middle class family
and friends of no
particular race or age.
However Tank, who is the
common stereotypical bad
guy, is part of a gang ands
therefore surrounded by
gang culture. The characters
therefore are mostly young
low class / working class
youths of mixed race which
may challenge the
stereotype of audiences
expecting to see young black
males.