How does your media product represent particular social groups

1. HOW DOESYOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?
By Jack Francois

2. Representation of gender
• In my film, I represented the male gender as the more dominant gender in my film.This is
because throughout all of the film there is not a female character.This represents the
female gender as the stereotypical 1950’s wife, where the women stay at home and look
after the kids as well as keep the house clean for their male counterpart.Whereas the
males are represented as a superior and more dominant gender as they go to work and
earn the money so they can feed their families. An example of this is when the protagonist
is walking towards the house.The low angle shot represents him as dominant and therefor
represents this social group.The protagonist follows a very masculine role as he acts if he
is not scared of anything as well as going to work so he can feed and cloth his family.
Furthermore, the antagonist is a male and therefor connotes male superiority through out
my opening scene as the women are nowhere to be seen.This connotes that women
cowards and are never present when a fight is happening or a violent/dangerous event is
about to take place.The opening scene is very stereotypical to the male gender.

3. Representation of Age representation
• Moreover, all the characters within my film/opening scene are of similar age. An
example of this is when the antagonist grabs the protagonist with the knife.This
stereotypes young people as being violent and irresponsible of their actions. As
well as this, due to the age of the protagonist and antagonist, this also represents
our target audience.What I mean by this is that the protagonist is represented as a
young office worker in his 20’s who is trying to get a promotion at work so he can
buy a new car or house.This then links with the audience who are then more
enticed to go and watch the film.

4. Location
• The location that we chose for my thriller film, was a house in Gravesend that has
been converted into a work place.We chose this location as it was easy to get to
and that it helped follow the stereotype of the protagonist as the stereotypical
worker in a office. We wanted this stereotype to follow throughout the opening
sequence.The establishing shot at the beginning of the opening sequence defines
what type of character the protagonist is and what the protagonist does for a
living.The location of the house represents the stereotypical work environment of
the 21st century and that it shows smartness but also shows corruption that people
now have to live with. It also shows the greed of men and women and how it can
affect the way people think and act towards others.This is why the antagonist is a
spirit that comes after the protagonist because of his greed and ignorance
towards others.The Protagonist(Alex)

5. Social economic status
• The Social economic status represented in my opening sequence is that the
protagonist seems to have a high paid job.This is represented by the cars parked
outside the buildings as well as what he wearing(a suit).This then connotes his
social status as rich. Moreover, the antagonist is different; he is wearing worn
down clothes as well as his hideout being collapsed and ruined.This then
represents the antagonists social status as poor with no proper housing
accommodation. Furthermore, the opening sequence/film represents the poor as
criminals and the rich as angels.This can challenge the stereotype because in films
such as the wolf of wall street, it represents rich people as criminals as the
protagonist is ripping everyone off so he makes a lot money. Overall, my film
represents the poor as criminals and the rich as angels.