Evaluation Question 2

Question 2 - 

How does your media product represent particular social group?

Our film’s target audience are teenagers and young adults. We have decided to base our film at the younger generations because our film is about social media and technology. Younger people tend to use social media and technology a lot where as older more mature people stereotypically don't use it as much as the younger people. Our film represents mostly school students and younger people. We have decided to add the same amount of woman as the amount of girls. This is because our film represents all sexes and ages. This is because we wanted to aim our film at both boys and girls equally. We wanted to do this so we were able to be relatable for all teens and not just a certain sex. The majority of our cast were young adults/teenagers and only one of our cast was of an older/mature age and this was the hacker. We did this to represent more than just one set of people which were teenagers and we wanted to add a little more diversity in. You can also see for a couple of second that we used a teacher in the class room/cctv camera footage. This has also added to the diversity in age that we have included in our final film as we haven't just chosen to represent school children. Throughout our film we haven't really represented class as our films based on younger children and they don't really have jobs at this age. This was a really hard subject to try and convey through in a film that is based around younger people. However the representation of men is stereotypical i feel, as in our piece the hacker is a male. This is a very stereotypical representation of men through the use of media as they are represented as the ‘killer’ type person. The male is represented as the type of person to avoid and is very stereotypically shown as the person committing a crime or doing something that wouldn't be deem acceptable in society. Although along with this point, we have also broken stereotype as we have shown the main character to me a male which is stereotypically a woman. This has broken the stereotype as it is shown that the leading male is in a vulnerable and targeted position. This has broken the stereotype as it is usually shown that the woman are in these positions most of the time because they ‘can’t protect’ themselves. Where as the male character is shown in a vulnerable place and is shown in a light that makes it look like he can’t fend for himself.  

The film is told through the perspective of the technology user. We have done this to connect with the audience that they are not all safe all of the time. This film is heavily based through the prospect that they will put them selves in this position and think about how they would deal with this if it were them dealing with it. We also did this to represent how vulnerable everyone is even in their own homes. The story is told through the eyes of a young student, along with our age certification of 15, the audience would be at the right age to resonate with the main character and the film is aimed at this age so they are able to connect with the film. The way the film is told, links to our audience through the use of the cast and the subject and theme of the film. We have made our film a thriller because this is a one of the most favoured genres which means that this would encourage a lot of people to watch our film including the younger generations. We have made our film about social media and technology. This is a big thing for younger people and teenagers. This means that these teenagers are going to be interested because the theme of this film is something that they are really interested in. We have aimed our film at this specific age range for this exact reason, because their generation is growing up around technology.   

These two characters have some things in common as they are both victims of hacking and they are both of a young age. As they are both young they are both very into technology and staying online. Most young people now days have start phones (Iphones), laptops, iPads, social media accounts like; Instagram, snapchat, Facebook ect. These characters are very similar and are portrayed in similar ways as they are shown in a naive light. These characters are both being watched and hacked without knowing that they are, which shows the risks of being online and having all of these smart product and being so attached to social media. These character are still both in school and are just at the stage of adolescence.