How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Fern and I was eager to create a video which would also increase the self awareness of social groups. Due to the content that we had included we felt the use of mise-en-scene should be entirely realistic to make the audience feel more involved. Fern and I had chosen to stick to the stereotype of two teenage girls during this era. We felt that when we had encountered this more of our audience would be able to identify with it. The costumes that Fern and I had dressed in was extremely casual and therefore didn’t represent an unrealistic approach, both Fern and I were keen to represent social groups as accurate as possible. We felt that it was significant to dress how we usually would, to show how evil and cruel society is to those who don’t even indicate a provocative style. Fern and I had portrayed social groups to be naive and have low social awareness we felt that this is how most teenagers can be, we had emphasised especially the social group of females as we feel they are a lot more susceptible than males. However once again that is following the stereotype of what the media evokes. Fern and I had represented social groups by the actions that we used i.e. using mobile phones as a form of communication, meeting each other, smiling, talking etc. Fern and I had chosen to represent social groups in a stereotypical way to influence those who are similar to this to then ensure they are more aware of what society is like.  Unfortunately we had only used minor footage which portrayed very little actions that teenagers have, we had used this when we were walking past the stalkers house by having little conversation and smiling to each other. No other social group of is represented in this film opening; however I feel it can apply to the majority of teenagers during this era. I feel that our film opening could represent the social group of class, I feel that working class/lower class individuals are able to identify with this, Fern and I didn’t attain this as well as we hoped as didn’t emphasise it enough. However I don’t feel that, that is a huge problem as the content is more important rather than the class that we are suggesting. Fern and I have represented the social group of lower/working class by the location that we have set it in, we haven’t used a location which suggests exaggerated, and therefore we had settled with our neighbourhood.  The real media continuously provides us with stories how evil individuals have been charged for being paedophiles, these cases often show that the children/teenagers that who have sadly experienced this are vulnerable, as a result Fern and I felt we would also use a social group of venerable teenagers as it will also be a caution to parents to perhaps ensure that they know what their child is doing etc. Fern and I had stuck to one particular social group as we felt something like this is exposed regularly in the real media, therefore if we had incorporated a selection of social group’s confusion to the audience may have been raised.