Evaluation - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product doesn't represent many different social groups. Because my film is a teenage rom com set mainly in a high school they are bound to be different ethnicity's. Though all three of my main characters are all Caucasian male and females who are all middle class. This does mean that all social groups will have some interest in the social setting. Though the main cast doesn’t create any appeal to other races.

In the UK, Teenager are portrayed by the Media as antisocial yobs. When the news y talk about the teenage generation of today they generally talk about illegal drinking and drug taking, violence acts and teenage pregnancy and anti social behaviour such as in this new's article.

My media product represent the teenage social group in a different way then from a adult media institution such as a news station. Instead the teenagers are portrayed from a view, they are portrayed from a teenagers view of teenage cultures, i did this because i believed that the get the most realistic idea of teenage culture you need to see it from a teenagers perspective and as i wrote the story and i am still a teenager i have been able to get the correct representation i wanted.

My film still does highlight stereotypes linked with teenagers that are shared by other media's such as relationship problems, drinking and drugs, Though this isn't all highlighted in my opening.




Youth Drinking

My film is set in the English county of Yorkshire, Yorkshire is stereotyped as being a region full of working class uneducated farmers,this is seen in a few TV and film productions based in Yorkshire such as daily soap opera Emmerdale which is based in a small Yorkshire village with a dominant selection of characters working in working class jobs such as factory workers and farmers, Heartbeat and This is England . This is England is based on a bunch of Jobless working class young adults.
          My film challenges this view of Yorkshire by setting my film in a school in a area of mixed social classes and a cast of mainly middle class characters. This will help widen my target audience as the film will appeal to different social classes.

Trailer for This is England showing the working class characters

My film wouldn't appeal very well to foreign markets because my film sticks to a much unknown regional accent. Most British films that have been famous abroad in the US and in Europe have had the famous London accent. And my media product sticks to a northern accent which wouldn’t be very successful in the cinema.