Question 2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Stereotypes and Ideology within a film are very important mainly because the audience can then relate to a character or at least know a little bit about them just by looking at them.

Social groups:

Sexuality

Regional identity

Gender

Socio-Economic class

Age

Disability/ability

 Race/Ethnicity

Sexuality within our film isn’t really an immediate issue and isn’t mentioned or hinted anywhere.

Regional identity is recognized in Jackpot mainly because of the accents used and ‘Barnsley’ is mentioned within the script. Urban areas such as a park where we filmed are associated with teenagers and crime is sought to happen there a lot. To represent the North of England and mainly south Yorkshire in a positive light we would have included no drugs, good education and clean areas. However we do not show our area in a positive light but rather in a negative light and instead involve drugs and crime into our narrative.

Gender in our narrative is a key subject because we have a male role and two female roles. In our film we see women in a positive light acting innocent and as a victim of the male. On the other hand we see the male as a villain planting the drugs in the females bag. This doesn’t challenge the stereotype of gender as most crime dramas have the male as a villain and a woman as the victim. To add to gender roles we have a female friend of the main character who also is a woman this is typical because most friends are usually of the same sex.

Socio-Economic class is included in our narrative due to Daniel being a drug dealer in the film disguised as a lawyer. This could suggest he has a lot of money and is of higher class than Olivia who is a college student. He is also dressed in a suit making him look like he is a businessman. The friend of Olivia is portrayed just as a typical teenager and is from the same class as Olivia.

Age is a big factor within our film; Daniel is playing a male 30+ year old who appears to be mature as he is a lawyer what you’d expect from him. Two teenage girls are also used in our film hence the reason why their so naive towards the drugs when there found. Age defines most of our script. In the film Daniel because he is older talks very proper and formative while the two girls talk very broad and use a lot of slang this could be associated with their ages.

Disability and ability is not an issue in our film and isn’t part of our script but it may be included later on in our film if we had carried on.

Race and ethnicity wasn’t really explored in our film either all the characters are white British but this wasn’t done for any purpose it just happened that we were all from the same ethnic group.