EVALUATION QUESTION 2:How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Age: In our product the teenager girl is shown to be emotional, seems to have a though life. This is a stereotypical factor we used about teenagers being emotional and seeing life as hard, however we made the protagonist who is one of the teenagers life to be shown truly hard. The female adult who is the mum and is shown to be in 30’s is represented of a complete opposite from stereotypical adult . A stereotypical adult is known as: serious, concerned over children however the adult in our product is shown to be unconcerned over their child & more self centred.

In our product the main group represented a teenager girls & one female adult:

Age:

In our product the teenager girl is shown to be emotional, seems to have a though life. This is a stereotypical factor we used about teenagers being emotional and seeing life as hard, however we made the protagonist who is one of the teenagers life to be shown truly hard. The female adult who is the mum and is shown to be in 30’s is represented of a complete opposite from stereotypical adult . A stereotypical adult is known as: serious, concerned over children however the adult in our product is shown to be unconcerned over their child & more self centred.

Gender:All the of the characters are females however not all three of them are represented as stereotypical females.

The protagonist is shown to have some stereotypical female characteristics as she is shown to be emotional due to her friends death. Also as she is taking a laundry basket to a laundrette shows some domestic work.

However, the mother seems to be not as stereotype due to the fact she seems self-centred, smokes & drinks. These are factors which are usually not expecting from a female, instead from a male. This is because smoking & drinking signify violence, something unusual for women.

For the dead character at first it’s not possible to say if they’re represented as a stereotypical female or not. This is a good thing because it keeps a good interest to the audience, as they will be wondering what kind of character she is.

Audience Feedback

Miranda, 16:“Effective, intense music.Good acting.Good setting.May be a different colour subtitles could be used.”

Lawrence, 17: “-Costume/ wardrobe was good a very Realistic.-effectively filmed to capture all the action.-Good use of music to convey the mood.-perhaps it was slightly unclear. ( the plot).”

Mirrin, 16:“ I like the use of the music and I like the plot. Maybe make it clearer that it was a flashback.Make the subtitles clearer & the scene a bit longer.”

Joseph, 16:“ I liked the background music, I thought it was very emotive. Although I wasn’t sure about the flashback bit.”

Viveak, 17“Choice of Music fitted the acting.Not 100% certain it was a flashback so make it clearer-maybe some sort of thought process.Good choice of setting.Make it easier to read subtitles.”

This was done by showing different people the final product and asking to give their opinion over it. It shows me the areas where the final product could be improved, so it’s approved.