2. How does your media product represent particualr social groups?

In our film we have used a traditional representation of females. The female characters in the film are seen as victims and vulnerable. This is very stereotypical traditional view of women as it is portraying them as vulnerable and weaker than men.
However at the same time we Incorporated some modern mis-en-scene so the majority of the audience can relate to the characters in our film. We created our modern mis-en-scene through all of the characters that are shown in our title scenes. To achieve this we showed the 'main character' as having a stereotypical life of a college girl ; she has the social aspects- the friends, the boyfriend. We dressed her in modern, young clothes, showed her using technology that the average teenager using everyday, e.g. mobile phone, computer. All of these are things that our target audience of 15-19 year olds can relate to, as they are all things you expect to find in the average teenagers life.
By dressing the character in casual clothes it allow all different type of people relate to her as she is not dressed in clothes that are stereotypically associated with particular social groups. The main characters boyfriend also creates a modern mis-en-scene. By dressing him in a tracksuit, with the big head phones, it gives the audience the impression he is 'cool' character, hence why he has the girlfriend.
Our film displays teenagers in a positive way, usually teenagers are portrayed via the media as being moody and troublesome, however that is not the case in our film. Our film does not show this, it shows the teenager as happy, and average, enjoying spending time with her friends and boyfriend whilst studying.