How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The image above shows all of our characters that you see. To some, this would be a typical seen that you would see on the streets of London nowadays, as teenagers are the stereotypical group that you would see on the road at this time. We used these three youths represent the trouble makers at you would often see in the media. Teenagers are one of the most commonly mentioned in a bad light. Normally ‘up to no good’ and are well known for loitering and for that reason would make it seem very believable to the audience that they would all meet up together to go out this late.
However my partner and I wanted to have a little twist on our story as, instead of there being the usual vulnerable women/girl that are used in most horror films, we wanted to make it well known that no one would be safe from this ‘Jenkins’ character that is mentioned. Being in a group is supposed to be a lot safer than being alone obviously and being a boy which are fondly thought to be a lot stronger than girls would make this story a lot more interesting, especially from ‘intimidating’ black males. This not only shows an age stereotype but an ethnic one as well, as some people from the older generation may associate them with crime.
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