How does your media product represent particular social groups?
my media product represents a particular social group, this would be the young teenager, in many western societies teenagers are seen as troublemakers and consumers of drugs and are labelled as outcasts to society, in our product we had a teenager running away form someone, the person who he was running away from was never shown to the audience, only at the ending when we see their feet creeping behind him, at the beginning we present out character to the audience as somewhat of a thief as he is a teenager hooded up running through the canal making his escape. The stereotypes about teenagers would state that any teenager with a hood running must be up to something illegal, only at the end of the movie opening we see that he is venerable as he is trying to contact someone, his facial expressions suggest that he is afraid of his follower. The viewer is not shown what happens to our victim because we wanted to keep the viewer questioning what happens.
Out product shows teenagers in different cases/ scenarios, one as a victim and the other a criminal, this challenges peoples stereotypes of teenagers that they can be innocent and venerable. The sample that i would compare my product to is 'collateral' the title sequence starts with a close-up of two men, the audience are not shown who they are or what they are doing, this could be compared to my introduction of the title sequence as we are shown a teenager in this case running for no reason, both scenes start off looking casual but the non diegetic music starts to make them more dramatic, and to build up tension in the viewer.
