Question Two

Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I feel that my media product represents a number of different social groups.  Through the use of young actors, I am representing young police detectives who are relatively new to their jobs. I am presenting them as somewhat incompetent as they fail to catch the killer and seem to have turned on each other. I feel that a variety of classes are represented throughout the piece such as middle to upper class business men through the serial killer as his costume suggests he comes from a high earning job and is quick to guard is wallet as it falls to the floor, killing someone to ensure that he gets it back. 

Gender is represented in a very stereotypical way within my media product as the male characters of the opening, excluding the tramp, all have appear to have respectable jobs through the dialogue and costume used.

The only female character however is presented as being a ditzy blonde, not knowing what to do when she is suddenly attacked by the antagonist, she appears to wait to be killed by him. She is also shown to be from a lower class than both the killer and detectives as she is staying in this dark seedy hotel and also through her costume appearing to be much more common. The name of the woman is also not mentioned signifying that she is not seen as worthless.

This representation of women as weak and worthless whereas the male characters are intricate to the plot of the opening links to my target audience which mainly consists of males between the ages 18 and 45. Although I believe my film mainly targets reformers who seek quality in their cinema, I believe that this depiction of men and women also targets succeeders who support the idea of stability in their cinema and would therefore feel comfortable with this 

stereotypical representation of gender.