R+P Post 4: Representation of social groups in our opening sequence

The main social groups that we chose to represent in our sequence are middle class British teenage girls. We have chosen to represent them through the use of an 18 year old female protagonist called Grace who is mixed race and British.

We have chosen to represent these social groups through the use of social media and the setting of our opening sequence.

Our opening sequence heavily revolves around the character's use of social media to carry out her stalking, and we decided to use social media that is popular with female teenagers such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. This is because teenagers are typically "addicted" to their smart phones and maintain active profiles on them, therefore in the opening sequence Grace, the protagonist, will regularly check the girl she's stalking's social media.

Use of Twitter in Cyberbully

The reference point we used as inspiration for this was the Channel 4 television film Cyberbully. The film is focused around the main character, a teenage girl's, constant use of social media to contact her friends and express her thoughts. The film goes on to show how she is stalked and terrorized through her social media.