How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our movie opening represents things such as gender, age and class. I chose to present this in mind maps and I will summarize each one down to the key points. All the points I discuss are stereotypes and don't apply to all people in those groups they are just things that from our research and the construction of the movie opening we felt do apply to these topics.
In our movie opening younger people such as Lily are presented to be dependant on someone older than them. This is shown through the phone call Lily makes to her mum telling her way she is and checking in with her. It shows a sense of vulnerability which is why we wanted our female protagonist to be 17 years of age. Their childhood innocence is still prominent yet they can still act and be seen as mature which was the idea we wanted to portray with this character. However, the older man who is very briefly shown in the movie opening is a huge contradiction. He carries himself rather heavily almost insinuating a sense of power and dominance over Lily. This could be due to the stereotypes of the male gender however I believe that his age heavily influences the idea of control he has over people especially Lily.
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