Evaluation - Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film represented particular social groups by:

Gender

All of the characters in our film are male, the only female seen is where she is in the audience for the Chief of Police briefing about the murders. The main reason why we had all of the characters male was because stereo-typically we thought the male gender fitted more with the violence taking place, and stereo-typically that males are more likely to be seen as head positions (Chief of Police) within a job. We also looked into big detective films and used the conventions, and any female actors within the film are not seen to be the main character, the detectives are mainly male (Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson).

Age

Within our film there is a variety of age portrayed between the characters. For the Chief of Police we purposely chose an older male (50+), this connotes that he has experience in his field, and he is a respected member within his society. The killer is seen to be alot younger (16-18), fitting with the stereotype that youngsters are 'youths' and are always up to no good, looking at violence to solve the situation. The two mysterious people who met and exchanged the package are seen as mid-males (25+), giving a big age difference between the characters.

                           

Physical Ability 

In terms of Physical Ability, we didn't have any actors within our film who are shown to have any physical disorder. We did not believe that it fitted in with our genre and we didn't think someone with a physical disability needed to be in our film.

Sexuality

All of that actors within our film are portrayed as heterosexual. Stereo-typically, we didn't think that someone with a homosexual nature would fit in with our genre and the violence committed within our film.

Ethnicity

All of the characters/actors in our production are While-British. We didn't base any of the characters on a certain ethnicity, which made it alot easier to find actors, which are all White-British. Due to all of the characters in the film being White-British, it tell the audience that or film is a British Production and takes place in in the UK.