How does your media product represent particular social
1. How does your media
product represent
particular social groups?
KIMBERLEY ROSE-WOOD
2. My media product represents two key social
groups, the working class and women.
3. The Working Class
I have represented class within my opening sequence predominantly
through costume. My characters are dressed in dull colours most
commonly associated with a lower and less confident class of individual.
My characters are also presented as working class through the setting, my
use of location shows a typical working class home, certainly not lavish or
fancy.
In addition to this the narrative clearly demonstrates their working class
nature, mainly through dialogue and the characters sociolect.
4. Women
In my production I played on the stereotype that women are weak.
My production confirms the stereotype than women are vulnerable when
alone without a man for protection, this is shown through the fact that the
male character is not present when the disruption begins.
Also the scenes that show my main character on the phone reinforces that
men are stereotypically meant to protect women. I purposely showed my
male character ‘checking up’ on my main female character so portray a
sense of concern for her wellbeing in his absence.