Question 2- How does your media product represent particular

social groups?

Films are usually aimed at a particular group of people and can represent specific social groups these are the people who will most likely be in the ending of the film. Films choose to represent different social groups dependent on the genre of the film or what they would want to represent a specific social group. In ThreeSeven we only represent the teenage generation of the modern day and try to show the ways in which they have changed.The social groups in which ThreeSeven is representing is the teenage generation of the modern day which falls under the category of age and we also represented regional identity, gender and also the working class. There are two main characters throughout the film and all the characters are between the age of 15-19 and therefore that is the social group our film is set out to represent. There are different variables in which you can take advantage in order to represent a group that the film decides and in P.A.J Productions situation its teenager.The ways that we represented the social group is as criminals, mischievous, arrogant, immature and unaware of what matters with life. We showed this through the use of Mise-En-Scene by using costume to our advantage as both the characters are wearing tracksuit bottoms in which in modern day they are referred to as looking informal and the sense of mischievous behaviour. The way our characters are presented in the final product is that they are the stereotypical teenager from the West Midlands which means that they are quite mischievous and are immature for there age we wanted to show this because that is how they are portrayed in real life and in ThreeSeven P.A.J Productions wanted to accomplish that.

Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

There is also a sense that ThreeSeven represents the working class as this social group are stereotyped as being money obsessed and will do anything to get money to help support their families and the product shows this through the criminal activity that occurs throughout the two minutes. In the sequence you can see that the area is deprived as the buildings are quite run down and therefore would represent their regional identity as well. We did this in order to show people what actually happens to people and what choices people have to make and this makes the working class look bad in the media but all that they are trying to accomplish is to look after their families and in the actual film we would want to demonstrate this through using the four micro decisions that are camera, editing, sound and Mise-En-Scene.We represented gender through the use of casting. We casted to typical teenage male characters and also no female characters were used during the sequence. These were done deliberately to represent the way male teenagers are presented and this is as quite strong, powerful and crime obsessed and not big thinkers in situations that need thinking, for example the character borrows money of a top drug dealer in the area, now this is not ideal as he has now got into trouble with the wrong sort of people and this represents the stereotypical male teenager and this is what we proved with our plot of the story.Our media product represents age, gender, working class and regional identity throughout the open sequence. We represented the age of the characters as troublemaking immature people because that is how they are represented in the media and we wanted to display this. We represented gender by not using any female characters in the sequence and we used two typical lads that are into violence and crime. We represented the working class by the plot of the story to show that the working class are money obsessed and want to ensure the well being of their family and we represented their regional identity as the typical West Midlands area, quite ran down and deprived we did this because that is what it is like in the area.

Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?