The document analyzes how different social groups are portrayed in a media product. It discusses the positive representation of young, cheerful cleaning women from a working class background. It also examines the portrayal of a stressed working class father struggling when his wife is absent, and the innocent stereotypical depiction of a young girl suffering from nightmares. The antagonist has no clear social class as a dark entity, though it only interacts with the oppressed girl and victims, similar to an antisocial character. All characters have stereotypical Welsh accents to make the average working class family more relatable and sympathetic.

1. Year 12 Media Coursework Evaluation
How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
Jade Morgan

2. The cleaners in the
sequence are portrayed
positively as young and
cheerful working class
women, as is
represented by their
friendliness, jobs and
innocent lack of
experience with fear-
inducing factors; one’s
fear of blood, and the
other’s unawareness of
what force is after her,
suspecting only a
student.
These traits are
stereotypical of the first
victim, as they are easy
targets before any other
characters are made
aware of dangers.

3. Contrasting to his
wife, the father in the
sequence is working
class and stressed
when his wife isn’t
around to help him
with their daughter’s
nightmares, as is
shown by his scruffy
tie and anxiety in
waiting for his
daughter to go back
to sleep before she
returns.

4. The protagonist fits the
stereotype of a young girl
that is suffering from
nightmares and seeing a
horrifying imaginary ‘friend’.
Terrified, hysterical, and
trying to make her father see
that her fear exists, she is
suppressed by him instead, as
is typical of a child that
suggests anything out of the
ordinary to a parent.
The various pink items in her
bedroom and the way that
she is surrounded by toys
represent her innocence.

5. The antagonist has no obvious
social class as it is a dark
entity without a revealed
identity. However, the clown
only appears to the young girl
and its victims; the lack of
contact with people is typical
of an oppressed person, alike
to the protagonist, as well as a
violent and antisocial
character.
This also conforms to the
clown, I.T, that mine is based
on, though differs in how it
does not speak to the child
and attacks adults rather than
kidnaps children.

6. Each of the characters
are from Wales, and
therefore have Welsh
accents stereotypical of
average, working class
Welsh families. The use
of a relatable, ‘normal’
family makes the
audience feel more
connected to and
sympathetic towards the
characters.
The setting of the dark
but notably small (due to
so few cleaners) public
school also supports the
idea of a working class
society, as does the
young girl’s small
bedroom.