How does my media product represent particular social presentation

James Lishman

HOW DOES MY MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT

PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

GENDER- FEMALE

• The female gender is often under represented within the Thriller genre.

• However within our piece, ‘Forbidden’, the female character (the Ghost) is represented with a lot more dominance and power.

• Although she is a ghost, the female character is representative of other strong independent females.

• Anti-stereotypically the female ghost has the dominance over a male character.

GENDER-FEMALE

The female character, the ghost, showing her dominance over the protagonist.

GENDER- MALE

• Typically the main male character is the dominant heroic character in the thriller genre.

• Not conforming to typical thriller conventions the male character in our piece, plays the ‘damsel in distress’ role.

• The male gender is represented in an anti-stereotypical way in that he is afraid of what is seems ‘nothing’.

GENDER-MALE

The male character, estate agent, showing signs of fear.

AGE

• The age range for our male character (the estate agent) is young to middle aged.

• 20-35 years.

• This is typically the age range for most estate agents.

• This therefore represents both this age range for males, and also the estate agents social group.

AGE

• For our female character (the ghost), we specified the age of a 10 year old.

• Having a young child as a ghost who died at a young age is very stereotypical and represents the young supernatural in a form of afterlife.

• The young girl is also represented in a typical view of being mischievous and menacing however in a haunting way to the estate agent.

ESTATE AGENT

• Estate agents are represented as a young naïve social group.

• They are also represented as vulnerable, often on their own and never in control of the situation.

• The estate agent also represents the young adult age range in that most estate agents are of this age group.

• Estate agents are also represented in the stereotypical slick and superficial way. We portray this stereotype positively with Ollie (the estate agent) having an expensive watch and slicked back hair.

ESTATE AGENT

The estate agent showing himself in the stereotypical slick way with an expensive watch

and neat slicked back hair.