evaluation question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

in our media film we included a variety of different types of social groups in our film for instance there’s a diversity between age where in our film it introduces a young single mother to a young child.in  this film the young mum is seen as vulnerable as she is a single mother and this is usually seen as a negative in the medias perception because stereotypically they cant look after themselves or there kid such as scrounging of the council just for a flat etc. But in our film we see that this mother and child have particularly washed out that stereotype because the mother is working and she also takes her child to school every morning before going to work just to look after her child.

Ethnicity is also one of the social groups that feature in our film as we have a mixed race son, an Asian mother and a black father. The black father has been portrayed, as a negative character in this film as he is in prison for beating up the mother this is very stereotypical because the medias influenced the way we based our film. This is due to the fact we know that this is just the basic that goes on everyday and its expected because that’s already the way our mind is set up. In up to date documentaries black young men feature hugely in association with crime issues, this is especially involved in street violence, gun and knife crime and gangs and on both side of the crime either as the victims or as the perpetrators of crime. The behaviors and attitudes of some of those represented also associated in black young men with a potentially violent are threat to the wider society. Furthermore the father in this is seen as a deadbeat dad as he has left the mother and child to fend for themselves as he is locked up in prison which is another stereotype.