Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our chosen social group is females in their early 20s so our film focuses on the representations of gender and age in particular. We have represented them via our mise-en-scene,  our character's behavior and dialogue, and our camera and editing techniques.

 After researching how women were portrayed in film, I realized that women were very underrepresented, as shown below.

In action &adventure films, only 23% of speaking characters were women - according to UN Women.

Strong female characters who challenge stereotypes and influenced
 our characterization of Stacey.

Below I have annotated a video to demonstrate how our video follows or challenges representations of our social group. (You may want to skip from 1:03 to 1:25)

We have tried to create a confident character who breaks most female stereotypes but she follows most conventions of a femme fatale character.

Gaze theory:

Our male character contrasts with the strong, sexy role of our female character. Stacey is objectifying Ryan via the photos of him on her iPad. In films, following the Gaze Theory, this notion is normally where men objectify females but we decided to challenge this idea.



To conclude, we represented young females as we were familiar with the stereotypes and related well with this representation. We also had a clear idea of what stereotypes we wanted to challenge and conform to.