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

The main representation that we focused on in our project was representation of gender. We wanted to have two contrasting characters of the same ender: one that conformed to the stereotypes and one that broke them in order to make the narrative plot of our film interesting and unique to the audience.

We executed this by having two female characters in our media product:

• Grace: non-stereotypical teenage girl
• Ella: stereotypical teenage girl

In order to discover the conventions of (teenage) girls in the media, we looked at real examples for inspiration. Skins was our main reference point as due to its wide cast we found characters in the TV show that both conformed to and broke the conventions of teenage girls. We specifically looked at the characters of Naomi and Michelle.

In our film we constructed our representation of the characters through the use of dress, gesture, dialogue, setting, behaviour, relationships, camera and editing. Examples of this can be seen in the table below.