Michael Bond Media Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

By Michael Bond

Young Females

I believe that I have represented young females in a positive way because I made sure that my model posed with an expressionless face to show purity and innocence. However, the same cannot be said for cosmo girl who have positioned the model in quite a sexual way due to her pose with her hands and the expression on her face. This objectify young females as sexual objects due to their role models posing In that way in the media. In contrast to the this I believe that I have represented young females in a positive way because my model isn’t wearing any sexual submissive clothing and her hair is laid down so it shows the simplicity of the age I am trying to represent.

Stereotypes of Females

1. Sensitive2. Sexually Submissive3. Pink4. Make-up5. Self-centred

Young Males

• I believe that I have represented young males in a positive way because I made them pose in a specific way which made them look like they didn’t care and so show the simplicity of such a young age. I did this because I wanted to represent the average young male and not just the top 10% of males who look like the model to the left of my image. The image to the left of mine portrays young males as wanting to achieve the ‘macho’ look and so I wanted to represent the whole of young males by their pose and the way they look.

Stereotypes of Males1. Muscles2. Breadwinner3. Deep Voice4. Tall5. Macho