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

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

                Above I have inserted two images: on the left- our media product and on the right-Kidulthood. I have chose Kidulthood mainly due to its teenage cast. I believe there is similarity between the two representations.

                Kidulthood is a 2006 British Drama film focusing on the life of 6 teenagers. Red Madrell and Jaime Winstone, the actresses playing the teenagers pictured, are portrayed as the stereotypical working class teenagers. This is similar to our media product which is portraying teenage girls as self centred and deceitful.

                Our media product: Deadly Kiss is representing teenagers as students and members of a college. Our cast were asked to wear their normal everyday clothes, this is classed as normal casual wear in which our target audience can relate to. However in Kidulthood, the teenagers are dressed in school uniform as it is set in a school and the main characters are in year 11. Later on in the movie, the girls are seen in casual wear similar to our media product.

                Both teenage casts are used to develop the plot of the movies. There are additional stereotypical views seen in Kidulthood, as the teenage girls are seen smoking, using drugs and drinking. This stereotype is also portrayed in our media product as the main character is seen to be smoking outside.

Our perceptions of teenagers are similar to that in Kidulthood. Both films portray teenagers to be in school/college studying. I believe our product is portraying teenagers through our own eyes as well as societies. As I am a teenager myself, I think that Kidulthood is over stereotypical in the way teenagers are being portrayed.