How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We have represented:

- Females
- Males
- Different cultures/lives in Britain

How?:

Females:
We have used a strong woman to represent women and femininity. We have shown her in her ritual of getting ready, representing her as a ‘princess’ although it turns out she is the ‘false princess’. This is also used in ‘Legally Blonde’ (Robert Luketic, 2001), although used in a very different way. In ‘Legally Blonde’ the sequence is a lot more upbeat and faced paced, whereas in ours the music and slow pace causes the sequence to be a lot more eerie.
Her getting ready is used to show that while a woman can be feminine and elegant she can also be strong willed. The way she dresses connotes that she is feminine as she is wearing a dress and quite heavy eye make up and red lipstick. We have used the female character as the villain to challenge stereotypes and to show that women can be dominant, and are not always the victim. We chose to represent women in this way, and with this character, as she represents the everyday modern woman.

Males:
The male character in our film is the victim. The tone of his voice when he is talking to the female character makes him seem innocent as he speaks softly whereas she speaks harshly to him. In the shot where he is standing at the front door waiting for her to answer he also looks like the victim. This is because he is very close to the audience and it causes the audience to feel that he is trapped with them.


Different cultures:
We have also represented different cultures in the film, to represent the multicultural society in Britain today. We have represented Mediterranean culture in this film with a Mediterranean actress playing the female character. We have gone against the stereotypes of Mediterranean men and women in our sequence as the men are usually strong willed and are seen as brave, and never the victim, while the women are expected to be very feminine and in many cases to stay at home. However, most Mediterranean women are also seen as passionate which we show with our character. We will have more reflections of the culture throughout the film, possibly with her culture having caused her to turn into a villain.


Our production company ‘Perspective’ represents the perspectives of people in different cultures and with different lives in Britain.