EVALUATION - QUESTION TWO

How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

As our group were producing and piecing together our media product 'The Remembering', the first social group we thought of and ultimately chose to use was around the age of 15 to 16 years old. With the narrative being around the death of a friend in a friendship group that comes back to haunt them a year on, we saw this as a more tense and suspense filled age group due to stereotypes of them having 'social lives' and the actions in the narrative will question everything about their day to day lives. 

The portrayal of this age group was shown through various stereotypes and shots such as the close up of the 'Cours Light' beer bottle and the medium low angle shot of all the friends clinking there drinks together. This was to signify the stereotype of teenagers having 'gatherings' and drinking around that age. 

Furthermore, another quite common stereotype of the age group we chose is that they are demonstrated to like to take a lot of selfies on an expensive mobile (as an example). Carter is shown to be taking a selfie of himself and Elias and Bree through a pan shot to signify the age group and its stereotypes.