Evaluation question 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our piece we have not directly shown any certain social group. The most we have shown will be something like 'thugs' as a social group from the two bad guys. However the social group of gender could be noticed as well as age, as we only have young people in our opening, perhaps showing that they are meant to come across as a younger generation and more able bodied than older people. With the 'Thug' group, people of this social group are usually stereotypical people who dress in dark clothing and try and hide their faces from people. They are also linked to things like violence and hang around in dirty areas. Our piece could reinforce this stereotype in the first few scenes, during the part where the main character is tied up, however as the scene quickly switches to running through the countryside, it challenges this stereotype by showing that they are not in a grimy city or counsel estate. We dressed these characters in dark clothing to show their dark nature and give as little away of the characters as possible. However once the montage starts and the bad guys fall over and make fools of themselves, they challenge the stereotype of young people being thuggish and makes them seem more comedic.

The main character could represent groups like white, males and teenagers, and it also challenges some of the stereotypes. As teenagers are usually considered as having fasion sense, but due to the clothes the main character is wearing in the film, it shows he does not really have a proper fasion sense while making the actual look of the character more comedic. However it could conform to the stereotype that young people only ever get into trouble, as he is immediately tied up and shown running away from 'bad people'. The main character is also shown to be white and male, this conforms to the stereotype of a male hero instead of a female hero. In these sorts of films, there is no direct link to racial stereotypes, as the many films I have looked at feature people of all ethnicity's, but our piece could be hurt because we do not feature and racial diversity in it.

The original idea for our piece involved a female character who would either by the boss of the two bad guys or help the main character, due to certain reasons we could not go through with this so our final piece may show a male dominated viewpoint, as it involves no females. This does not challenge the stereotype of our society, which many people believe to be male dominated and may reflect badly on our representation of young people and what sort of groups we are showing in this piece.