QUESTION 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media product presents different social groups in a very clear way, and specifically addresses its target audience. In terms of race, gender, age, class, etc our film stipulates these elements within the first 2 minutes.
Our film is mainly male dominant. We do not present many women in our film it is mainly young men across the ages of 16-21. This is because our target audience ranges between these ages. Even though the casting for the film is male dominant we hope this does not change women’s views on watching our film.
Older people may not enjoy our film as much, which is why our target audience is fairly young people. Not to say that they will not enjoy the film but from our research we had found that the elderly do not really enjoy thriller films as much as the youth of today would. Also the film overall is said in standard English, but to make it more relatable to our younger viewers, we had included little hints of slang from youths urban environment, which our older viewers may not understand and be able to relate to because we find relatability throughout thriller films a very important aspect.
We used young black boys in our film to give our audience an element of relatability throughout the viewing of our film. We also set the location of our film in an urban environment so other inner city youth can completely relate and to those who do not live in the city to have a real view of I through our film.