Media AS Question 2

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1. How does your media product represent particular social groups? How does your media product represent particular social groups? AS Evaluation Question 2 AS Evaluation Question 2
2. Introduction Introduction  The majority of our characters are teenagers around about the age of 16/17. This is because our production was based in a school setting with both pupils and students. To try and portray these students the best we could we used actors aged 16/17 to act as the students to create a sense of realism for the audience. To try and enforce this realism we tried to match as many stereotypes as we could with our characters, these are detailed in the following slides.  The majority of our characters are teenagers around about the age of 16/17. This is because our production was based in a school setting with both pupils and students. To try and portray these students the best we could we used actors aged 16/17 to act as the students to create a sense of realism for the audience. To try and enforce this realism we tried to match as many stereotypes as we could with our characters, these are detailed in the following slides.
3. “Nerdy” Male Teenagers “Nerdy” Male Teenagers  An example of a stereotype we tried to match is “nerdy” male teenagers. Daniel ,the main character, represents this social group in certain ways such as sitting on his own in the classroom, walking to lesson alone, having hobbies such as coding which is a quite individual activity. This shows the nerd stereotype as they are often perceived as lonely with not many friends, we tried to show this by having Daniel often in shots alone rather than with other people.  An example of a stereotype we tried to match is “nerdy” male teenagers. Daniel ,the main character, represents this social group in certain ways such as sitting on his own in the classroom, walking to lesson alone, having hobbies such as coding which is a quite individual activity. This shows the nerd stereotype as they are often perceived as lonely with not many friends, we tried to show this by having Daniel often in shots alone rather than with other people.
4. “Popular” Male Teenagers “Popular” Male Teenagers  Our production also represents the opposing end of the spectrum with some more popular male teenagers, to show how they were more of a group than individuals we never showed them separately in the film. Equally the two characters acted less awkwardly than Daniel again reinforcing Daniels stereotype.  Our production also represents the opposing end of the spectrum with some more popular male teenagers, to show how they were more of a group than individuals we never showed them separately in the film. Equally the two characters acted less awkwardly than Daniel again reinforcing Daniels stereotype.
5. Adults (Teachers) Adults (Teachers)  In our production, we tried to portray the adult characters as more mature than the teenagers to emphasize the idea of a school and a teacher to student relationship. For this reason Mr Welch’s character acted very serious while on camera and showed a clear sense of status above the pupils.  In our production, we tried to portray the adult characters as more mature than the teenagers to emphasize the idea of a school and a teacher to student relationship. For this reason Mr Welch’s character acted very serious while on camera and showed a clear sense of status above the pupils.