Evaluation Question Two - How does your media product present particular social groups?

QUESTION 2: How does your media product present particular social groups?

 

Within our group thriller opening, there are only four characters. However, all four characters are boys, this leaves us very little option as to stereotype some but not all of the boys. For example, we have two villains. They're both wearing masks to cover there faces. We chose to do this to convey how powerful the two masked men are, as they have all the power as they are unknown therefore feared. However, the two other characters are unmasked and known to everyone. As we chose to only follow the stereotypical "powerful man" for just the two villians we therfore chose to portray the other two boys as more weak and dominated by the two kidnappers. This challenges hegemony as the characters do not conform to the typical stereotype of men being dominant as they got kidnapped by men themselves.

 

Our thriller opening consists of typical blue collar crime, as the villians are getting their hands dirty instead of commiting crimes that tend to include sitting behind a computer screen for crimes such as fraud, those types of crimes are known as white collar crimes and they are usually comminted from people from the upperclass who have more sophisticated jobs as they are then able to commit more dangerous crimes. However as our thriller opening includes young teenage boys and kidnapping being the main crime being committed we chose to portray the boys as typical working class teenages who have nothing better to do than get involved with crime and seek a thrill for it.

Although our main characters are teenage boys they do not typically conform to the stereotypical 'trouble maker' throughtout the whole of the opening, however the kidnappers may conform as they are the ones committing the crime which is typical of their age group and social class.