evaluation question 2

2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The characters featured in my Horror film are based on average teenage stereotypes. The characters aren’t particularly rebellious, which shows that they aren’t placed on the negative side of the average teenage stereotype, which would go out at night and get drunk, and vandalise property etc. However, the characters, apart from Bethan, aren’t really situated on the positive side of the teenage stereotype either, which would stay at home doing work all day, not go out much, and would tend to stay out of the way of people. The stereotype that we have created is in between of these two stereotypes, although Bethan tends to move towards the positive teenager stereotype, as she does not have many friends and tends to stay at home a lot doing college work. The clothing that our characters wear also represents their stereotype. Our characters wear average teenage clothing such as shorts, jeans, t-shirts, “hoodies” and trainers. These items of clothing convey the stereotype of teenagers, and these items of clothing aren’t particularly expensive, which is perfect for a teenager as they do not have much money, due to them not having jobs. The way the characters talk also suggest that they are teenagers. For example, in our script, the way that Alex says “Umm yea, sure...” suggests that he is a teenagers, as other more mature people would most likely not speak like this.