Q.2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups? In my media product it represents different social groups from adolescent to vulnerable young girls. As my actor is a young teenage girl, the first obvious social group is teenagers. Teenagers are at the stage in life where they are finding out who they are as a person and can be somewhat more daring, which leads to the stereotype of teenagers being trouble causers. With teenagers getting into trouble, lessons in life are learnt; the girl in my media product is not a trouble causer but the question is, is trouble now going to occur as of her being there or trouble is ahead. As young adults there are still growing up and learning things, so in a sense they are more nosey and they want to know what is around them, and like toddlers they want to touch everything and find out more. This is exactly what happens in my product the young girl is just checking the surroundings out, yet when something suspicious is found she has to dig deeper to find out more!

Another social group would be girls, who are the more vulnerable sex. This because are seen weaker than boys and more emotional. This also leads to more of a mothering social group, as the character is a babysitter, which is more of girl’s role. With the character rummaging through the luggage it suggests she wants to know the happenings of the child in almost a protective manor. In addition the costume is of a typical teenager consisting of jeans, vest top and hooded jacket. I choose these typical items as they are casual and what an ordinary dressed person of her age would wear. The reasoning of this was because by keeping it ordinary any happenings out of the ordinary would seem worse; as they would not be exspected. However the choice of top colour was skin tone, giving a sense of being naked which leads to the impression of more vunerability. It also could suggests that she has nothing to hide, personally but by wearing a hooded jacket she could be trying a protect herself externally.