Evaluation Question 2...

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

  Gender is not very well represented as only female characters are ever seen on screen. However, there are many obvious contrasts between the two main female characters. One appears proper and civilised, with a high paid office job. She is also the taller of the two women so you would assume she is the most powerful.

  The other female character is short and at a quick glance could be mistaken for a child. However, both characters are in their late 20’s. The shorter character should be the least powerful of the duo, but throughout the product we see that actually, she may have the upper hand. This could be due to the fact that they are of similar age yet behave in such different ways. One just ‘gets on’ with her 9-5 office job, passing the hours of her monotonous life, whilst the other is spending every waking second meticulously plotting and scheming, breaking laws and living on the edge. 

  Personally I feel that the ‘villain’ has reached more of her potential in life, regardless of whether it was for good or evil.

  Typically in media, characters of ethnic minority (mainly Black people) are perceived as the criminals. In our media product this is reversed, as the black character has the successful well-paid job, whilst the white character is the one breaking the law. 

  This helps to represent black people in a positive light. 

  There is no real representation of class within my product as there is nothing within the clip that could indicate the social class of either character. For all we know our ‘villain’ could have come from an upper class family who disowned her because she was mentally ill, or she could have been an orphan who spent her childhood tossed from home to home, forced to live with other people’s parents.

  There are no hints towards the sexuality of either character throughout the product, although we could infer that it is very unusual for a woman to follow another woman- maybe there is an underlying issue there, which would be revealed later on in the clip. It could be that the villain is a lesbian, secretly in love with the office worker, or it might be that one woman stole another’s boyfriend, or had an affair with another’s husband. There are many different ways that sexuality could be represented within the clip.