How does your media product represent particular social groups?

1. How does your media product represent particular social groups? My media product represents social groups in several ways, we decided to focus on two social groups that are seen often in teen romcoms...

2. Charlie Charlie is your typical popular boy, someone who had all the friends and girls around him. This is seen quite a lot in teen romantic comedies, and we wanted to contrast his social group with Rose. We based Charlie's character on someone like Chad Michael Murray in Cinderella story, or ZacEfron in High school musical, botWe based Charlie on being in the popular group, but didn't want him to portray him as a horrible character, so like many other lead boys, we made him kind towards Rose, however as seen in a lot of films, we didn’t want to make his kindness too obvious, as characters like Charlie are quite image conscious, caring what his friends think of him, which is why we made his only proper conversation with Rose, one that they shared privately.

3. Stereotypical ‘popular boys’ in high school set films.

4. Rose On the other hand, we wanted to make Rose the stereotypical loner, a girl that was misunderstood by her peers, we wanted her to have a different dress sense to others, so concentrated on the mise en scene, on her character most, as we needed her to contrast the other characters, to emphasize that she was different. We put Rose in quite odd patterns, we didn't want to go down the stereo typical ‘geek’ route for Rose, so we focused on her having a more alternative dress sense. We saw her getting pushed over by the ‘popular group’, adding a hint of comedy to our production. We focused on making setting her character like Hilary Duff in Lizzie Mcguire, Selena Gomez in Princess Protection Programme, or DemiLovato in Camp rock. All girls that struggle to fit in at high school.

5. All girls that at the start of films are not accepted by other characters.

6. Charlies friends. • We portrayed Charlies friends as the popular group, and as in excisting films, you see the popular group as the mean group, and we portrayed this in our film well. We had them knock over Rose, and laugh at her, walk over her sniggering. We also had them discussing a party in lesson, whilst showing Rose getting on with her work, showing that they were not bothered by learning, and more bothered by their social plans. We based these characters on the ones you would see in films like ‘Mean girls’ and other teen films, they are also shown in the films such as Camp Rock and Lizzie Mcguire.

7. Stereotypical popular groups.

8. I feel we have portray these social groups very well, and they are obvious to the viewer from the start.