how does your media product represent particular social groups?

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film represents the dangers that are out there for young women. The streets surrounding the school are dark, mysterious and are dangerous and there are men hiding in this unsafe environment that are out there willing to harm young women to get what they want.

Young females that are being targeted a lot by perverts and rapists are always usually the victims in these situations because females are seen as inferior in strength compared to men and the stalker for example wants to have sex with this girl and thus the girl cannot combat the stalker when she is being abducted. The rapist is represented as a grown man with a rugby players build, men are always seen as aggressive when wanting sex and who they have it with. The two main characters are both white but we didn’t really concentrate on ethnicity or cultural background because we felt that it would not affect the message of the film. Both characters seem to be from the London region and the film is based in west London however we can not tell for the obsessed man because he hardly ever speaks but he is from the London region. Both characters are heterosexual, men are usually more aggressive when it comes to sex where as women are pictured making love and not just going for the thrill, men on the other just want to have sex for the feeling and sometimes this feeling or want of the feeling can get the better of them as in the case of our antagonist. Once again we do not talk about the class division because it does not have an effect on the story line the girl could be working class or middle class or even upper class but we feel that it does not matter even though the setting shows that she is from a working class or middle class background. The message of our story is that all girls that are young are in a lot of danger all of the time because there will always be a pervert in the world. The message has been said before but we feel that it is useful for girls to know that the streets of London are dangerous. We did use the stereotype of the poor innocent girl and the big bad man, we did this because that is what the pervert usually looks like but the girl is always small looks helpless. The effect is that girls will be more cautious than usual when going home alone and going out on there own. This will also make the perverts lives more difficult because women will be more caution.