Evaluation Question 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Definitions:
Representation- The action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.
Social Groups- People sharing some social relation

Media Product- A text that has been designed to be consumed by an audience, Eg: Movie.

There are four different Factors which effect the presentation of a representation in a movie: 

Mise En Scene- The arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a film.

Sound

Camera Work

Setting- The place or type of surrounding where something is positioned or an event takes place. 

Firstly our group tends to represent the expected or stereotyped social group from teenagers which is being a criminal. Our group member Shah Kamaly was the person who was playing this role and we have got him ready for this stereotype in a particular way. 

 As we can see that he is wearing clothes which is fully 'Blacked-out' to portray the negativity and give the understanding that he is not a character which is to be a role model(Mise En Scene). The Camera is set to give a long shot so we could see that he is exchanging drugs with another member of the college. The setting was chosen to be outside as it represents the characters personality; he doesn't prefer being inside the college doing some work, however he is outside selling drugs. The music behind does also relate as its a 'ghetto' soundtrack. we was inspired from the Teen movie Adulthood where this type of characters did exist and it does relate to our current era. 



Secondly we did have another character which does relate to the Criminal and we decided to make this character a female. We saw that it is too mainstream for a male character to be in a negative role and be the 'Bad Guy' however, its not expected for a girl to be a bully and we have done it. We decided to make this person as the bully as it challenges the stereotype that girls are naive and soft like in other teen movies for example, Breakfast Club and its really unconventional for a girl with a hijabi to be bullying someone. Her Mise En Scene is well used to show her negativity as her skirt is ripped and she wears a 'hoodie' to be the 'bad girl'. She doesn't have much screen time in the opening to make the audience interested however, we did choose to show her with the other negative character which is the criminal to show the similarities these two characters.

These are now more expected at the current era because, we see both sexes being convicted with crimes and now in films we do expect some females being involved in gangs for example the Teen movie KidultHood.