How does your media product represent particular social groups?
For our main character we wanted to have her represent the urban side of London. We included many shots of her outfit including closeups of her shoes and earrings and a wide shot that showed her backpack as she was walking into her house. We felt that tracksuits, trainers and gold hoop earrings were stereotypically worn by characters who were dealing with troubles but were tough, not in a negative aspect as in they cause fights, but are tough in the sense of even though they are the victim they don't let their troubles affect them because they still wake up everyday and get on with life.
We wanted to use a binary opposition for the bullies our main character encounters. While our main character looked more urban we wanted the bullies to look more casual in clothing that looked more expensive. Bullies stereotypically act like they are better than everybody because they are more fortunate than others, even though most of the time they are also dealing with problems behind closed doors. The close ups of the bullies are shown in slightly low angles to make them look like they are looking down on our main character.
We wanted to portray the sister in a negative aspect, as a rebel, because she is the main bully in our teen film. It is stereotypically accepted that if a young adult is wearing a hoody then it means that they are bad so we applied that statement to our film. We also used mise en scene to create her as a rebel by adding a close up of her doing weed in her bedroom and also half empty bottles of alcohol on the window sill to imply to the audience that she had been drinking alcohol.
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