HOW MY MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENTS PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS

MY OPENING SEQUENCE REPRESENTS THREE MAIN SOCIAL GROUPS :

• Young adults/ teenagers
• Ethnic Minorities
• Females 

 Young people/teenagers

• The stigmatisation attached to young adults and teenagers are challenged in my opening.  Newspapers and the media have stereotyped teenagers to be rowdy delinquents up to criminal activities. In the opening, I have left it ambiguous of whether my teenage protagonist conforms to these stereotypes. The contrasting phone messages (voice overs) left on her phone fully illustrate this.

•  The first was message seemed encouraging and positive as if the character was preparing to do something interesting and beneficial; the person who left the message said that she was proud of her. However, the second message left was more enigmatic and mysterious. The person said "don't forget to bring the stuff yeah" implying the utilisation of materials for criminal works. "Becks" picks up the phone and calls back in response to one of these messages, the person responded to was left absent to the audience.

Below, are the voice overs used as a form of a phone message.





Images from Adulthood (the main protagonists)

Females:

• My media product also represents females in a different way. The character in my opening is a female who encounters the same situation, that mostly males are usually presented to experience. Most of the films that mine was influenced from such as, Kidulthood and Adulthood use male main characters, however I wanted go challenge conventions which is why I used a female to present the idea, that females can go through the same issues as male.

Ethnic Minorities:

• My main character is not only a young adult, a female but she is also of an ethnic minority. Many black or other ethnic groups can be sometimes presented as criminals or delinquents. My main character is Asian, and I wanted to present her with this stereotype. This is why in the first scene, she looks like she is getting ready to approcah something criminal.