Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 2 media evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Social groups are often portrayed as stereotypes through media, whether its film, social media such as Facebook or Instagram, or in my case television. In my thriller opening scene I represented three different social groups:

• Young female – Generally in thrillers women are victimised, so in our finished product we included a young business women to challenge stereotypes that are being created through social media. Often when we see an advertisement on the television we see women being in the kitchen cooking or cleaning. The young female that is featured in our finished product challenges the stereotype as through mise en sene we see her wearing smart suit and generally looking very elegant. If we have used a women dressed very poorly and didn’t take care of herself we would reinforce the negative stereotype about women.
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  Female murderer – Our finished product also features a female murderer to challenge stereotypes that are created through social media. As mentioned before we think of women as gentle and very carrying about their family. For example we have drawn the representation of cat women who is cold and evil because it goes with the female murderer, also both characters have love relationship with the male characters. Also e have chosen to have a female murderer not a male murderer because males are generally more dominant and physically powerful, so we wanted to challenge this stereotype.

• Young male – White males are usually represented as lovers, family man and not usually as villains so we wanted to challenge this stereotype and use our male character as a bad guy who is very vicious and sexually attracted to the female murderer. The reason why we haven't used a black male is because black males are more likely to be involved in the criminal behaviour and we wanted the audience to be shocked seeing a white male as a villain. We have stuck to using the negative stereotype so that the audience would identify with ease what character stood for which representation. We have used close ups of his face to make the audience feel uncomfortable with being in such closeness with character they were just introduced to.   
  
  
  
  

  

  
   

Completed by Aleksandra.