Group16: Evaluation question 2:

How does your media product represent social groups?

to represent something is to describe or depict it, to call it up in the mind by its description or portrayal. To represent also means to stand for, symbolize or be a substitute for e.g the representation of the color black is to symbolize death, darkness or evil. Representations is the way that people ideas, and events are presented to us. The media will always represent people, places and situations to us. For example in most teen films the character representations are based on how they dress. The pretty and popular girl will dress really princess like and wear pink and the jock will always wear some type of a sport jacket to represent that he is fit and strong which makes him stand out from the others. The media rely on audience understanding these representations and accepting them. In most teen film there is also the representation of different social groups such as "the nerds", "the popular kids" and "the unpopular/weird kids". In our opening we have introduced these social groups. In the beginning scene you can see the nerd packing. The next scene shows the jock and the princess(the popular kids) talking on the phone. It then shows someone packing a knife to represent that he is the killer. The killer also represents the unpopular and weird kid that used to always get bullied. Even though our film represents all different types of social groups, it is still represented in a positive way because it shows how the different social groups are interacting with each other. the nerd and the two popular kids are friends that are going on the camping trip and the weird kid is a friend of the nerd but the popular kids don't know him very well. In the real media the nerds and the weird kids are looked down at and claimed to be unpopular where as in our film although different social groups are present, they are still a mixture of friends from different social groups.

The Nerd: