Evaluation: Question 2

Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film, we portray girls to look rebellious, this is slightly non stereotypical as usually girls are meant to well behaved and do as they are asked. However in our film, the female character is disobeying or attempting to disobey government laws. We have chosen to do this as it shows a different side and wanted to go against the stereotype. Our film is predominantly from a female’s point of view throughout the film, however we didn't want to show only females, so to contrast we decided to use a male to play our news reporter just to split up gender. Therefore we represented gender in both a stereotypical and non-stereotypical way as we had the male character dressed in a suit and looking professional which is what is expected.

Gender is shown in our clip through the use of different characters. For example, we use both a male and female character within our film. This was done to create contrast. We used the female character for our role of the rule breaker as we felt we were able to show women in a different way, as they usually aren't seen breaking the rules. The clothing we used for our male character are also stereotypical as men are often dressed smart or in suits, this worked well for us because it made our character look professional and appropriate for his role within the film.

The News reporter in our film connotes professionalism. He is seen to be wearing clothes that are associated with those in the same profession as him. This shows that are character is correctly dressed for the role he has in our film. When filming our news report we used a medium shot of our character producing a news report in the centre of town, we chose to do our news report there as we felt it would be more effective to show people in the background, especially as the news report was about the government placing a new law in which people could only socialise through social media.

Age is shown non stereotypically in our film, this is because the people that we have used for our film are both 17. However the male character we have used we have tried to portray him to look older as his role with in the film requires him to be a little bit older than he is. We have done that by making sure that he is dressed smart which we believed makes him look older than he actually is. When casting for this job role one of the things we were looking for was facial hair as again that would make them look older and be able to play an adult role better.
The main character in our film was a female and we showed her point of view whenever she was in the was in the scene. The use of the over the shoulder shot we did when the girl was watching the television showed that it was from her point of view.

I feel that our film links quite nicely to our target audience, our film is aimed at teenagers between 12 - 18. It is accurate for our target audience because our main character is a teen and they are able to relate to our film much more than if our main character was aged 30. I would say as our film is from a females point of view it may be more specifically aimed at female teenagers as it could appeal to them more, however I would say that because of our government law storyline it also appeals to the male teenage audience.

Cameron Eade