How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents particular social groups in a specific way, one being the main character. Through what clothes he is wearing and how he acts, this represents a particular social group of how a teenager is seen as wearing hoodies, low jeans and looking pretty messy. Furthermore through the environment we have used represents the type of social groups that may be seen in these places. Late in the evening and hanging around town is typical of groups of teenagers with the hoodies up, our character represents a teenager criminal and this is also seen from the diegetic language used in our media product. This represents particular socials groups such as teenagers, criminals and others that would watch it. Many people assume that a teenager with their hood up and hanging around town must be up to no good and is a criminal, we used this in our media product to suggest to the audience that our main character is of that social group, however of course it is not true that he is a criminal but to the audience we do get this impression.

Through our music we also represent a more younger generation, we used a drum and bass remix in our media product and this is very popular with older teenagers, like that in our media product. This represents a older social group of around 15+ as they are a lot more likely to be able to relate to this, through the clothing and music, the way they talk to their friends and the type of place they hang around. 

Here is two screenshots of both the actor in our media product and a real media product, this gives us an example of how we stereotyped and how well they compare and represent social groups. the one on the right is the typical stereotype and the one on the right is what our actor looked like to represent this type of social group. As we can see they are both with their hoods up, are of young age and in both films uses popular music of young teenagers, this works well to respresent social groups of teenagers. Both our media product and theirs main social group are older teenagers who can relate to what going in the media products through the characters, music and narrative.