Evaluation Question 2

How Does Your Media product represent particular social groups?

These different social groups include

Age, as we have not got no real different age differences in our media product there is no steriotypes of any older generation however due to the amount of younger adults or teenagers they are open to multiple interpretations as a whole on the contrary people will isolate and link individual behaviors to individual stimulants such as clothes they are wearing provides a certain personality.

 As Barry is wearing clothes that even we have suggested look chavvy we are reinforcing a negative stereotype about them in addition to him slapping the girl on her behind.

Martin is the embodiment of the geek stereotype who we have reinforced by making him sit and play computer games and rejecting the outside world.

Jack is a slob shown by what he is watching and how he is eating but is not bald and really fat as the stereotype suggests so we have not really reinforced this stereotype but not exactly challenged it.

Toni being the sporty and vain one is not acting in the way you would expect him to be as he is not 'dainty' as people believe vain people to be and not as built as they are believed and so the stereotype is challenged 

Chelsea's involvement in the opening is limited in terms of what we see of her however her voice is apparent in the narrative frequently so no real stimulus is shown to affect her personality so no real stereotype was presented.

Ethnicity, to prevent ethnocentrism we have included Ebony Dailey and she is portrayed as the victim to Barry showing her to be the innocent one shown by the intertexuality of the girls red jacket through woodland and red riding hood this shows Barry to be the antagonist  however if this challenges or supports a stereotype depends on the viewers own opinion as they may stereotypicaly believe them to be innocent or not. 

Social class, In our media product the only social class is evidently working class and so igniting no class differences However using multiple people it shows different people along the Working class spectrum as in people who are the lowest of the spectrum like Barry and Jack compared to the people on the higher end of that spectrum like Chelsea. 

Sexuality, there is no different sexuality other than straight in this film and that is not so apparent as the opening does not focus on what sexuality people are in the film opening and no steriotypes are used or challenged.

Gender, there are much more males in the opening then females, the females shown are shown as unfortunate people as one gets slapped inappropriately and one has to move out into a house with these men. The men in the opening are open to multiple interpretations as the men are portrayed in a wide variety of ways so some meets some steriotypes and challenges some of the typical mans attitudes and beliefs ect. picture of reinforced and negative stereotype.

Physical ability, everyone in the film is able bodied and no mention of disability is mentioned either to avoid any discrimination or accidentally upsetting someone.

Technical choices when seeing.

Barry, it starts as a close up to show him smoking a long shot of the girl walking by him and his responses to it shown by him staring at her followed by short takes of him following the girl building tension to climax at a humorous slap. Natural light is used to promote a happy atmosphere for the film.

Martin, A pan of the whiteboard Martin owns reveals tons of things that come under the stereotype geeky, and a shot reverse shot is used to show geeky reactions to the possibility of girls. the lighting was artificial low key lighting to show his dark, dreary computer world and changed to artificial high key lighting as the door opening to show the connection coming from the outside world to his world and how much better and brighter the outside world was.  

Jack, No fancy lighting or camera techniques were used in jacks scene just the bear minimum to get the point across, the only distinct thing used was the tilt at the time of Jack looking down and the camera provides a point of view shot from Chelsea however this did help to understand Chelsea's relationship to Jack.

Toni, A panning shot was used of him jogging to show his sporty nature and daytime outside needs natural high key lighting a close up is used to show him checking himself out in a car window so nothing fancy but all important to show who Tony is.

Chelsea, Chelsea has limited appearance in  the opening as video footage of her is very limited the only real shot of Chelsea is a mid shot of her packing just to show that she is moving and who she is.

The sound played when seeing ALL of these is either dialogue or the happy music given the task of keeping the sound fluent though fluctuating volume levels at different time intervals.

In conclusion we have no real steriotypes that are produced to be in bad taste and seem to be just the generalizations that the majority of people agree too and we only use steriotypes and not developed upon them further and in many cases have not even used the full steriotypes as an effort to keep the film opening clean of discrimination and to make it funny and appealing to all as the target audience research suggests.