How does your media product represent particular social

groups?

• Representation

• Social Groups

We represented a variety of and social groups

Professional therapist

Teenage girls

Indian girls

Criminals

The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way or as being of a certain nature.

Any number of people who share common goals and/or beliefs.

Representation of a therapist

Therapists are many portrayed as professional, academic, modest and helpful. We represented the therapist in our opening thriller as professional, and this is shown through codes of clothing/gesture.

Similar to the therapist represented in Gothika, we chose our therapists codes of clothing carefully, a black modest blazer and a skirt indicates professionalism.

Pen and paper, normally used by professional therapists.

Representation of therapists

Middle-class academic

Representation of Asian Girls

Particular social groups were represented within our media product.

We chose our character mainly because of her ability to act. However, her race is unconventional for general stereotypes which are shown in the media of Indian girls.

Typical stereotype of Indian girls, shown in (Bend it like Beckham)

•Studious/Academic

•Restricted in goals and ambitions

Our representation of Indian girls

• Violent/aggressive

• Isolated/depressed

•Disobedient

Presented through codes of gesture, and tone of voice of the voice over used.

Representing ethic minorities.

Representation of teenage girlsThe general representations of teenagers in the media are of them being aggressive, depressed, disobedient and promiscuous. We implemented a few of these representations within our production. We represented Sabrina our main character as depressed and isolated, and this is shown through camera angles. The mid-shot allows Sabrina expression to be identified, and therefore demonstrating her as anxious and depressed, which is a common representation of teenagers in the media.

This is used in thriller I Am Number Four and Skins which both represent teenagers as troubled.

Representation of criminalsOur representation of criminals is unconventional, this is mainly due to the age criminals are normally represented as an older character, but due to our target audience research we decided to create a criminal who is younger.

Max Cady in Cape Fear – older experienced character.

In comparison to Sabrina – 18 year old teenager.