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

Representation is the way something or someone is portrayed in the Media.The way film producers create representations is by decided what clothes a character is going to wear because the give the audience a certain impression of that character.
The character I have chosen from our opening sequence to compare is the character of Alice, who is played by me, Hollie Fowler. I have chosen this character because she is playing the role of a very typical teenager and I am able to compare it to teenage roles in other films. I have found an image of a girl who looks similar to my character, and she is from the film called 'Chat Room'. Here are the images I chose to compare:

As I have labelled, the image on the left has been taken from our opening sequence; and the image on the right has been taken from the film "Chat Room". You can see from these 2 images that they are very similar, however I have made it easier to notice by circling the similarities of the images:

The red circles show that both of the girls are using laptops. The laptop on the right looks like it is on myspace, and the laptop on the left is on facebook. This is a big similarity because they are both operating social networking sites which involves talking to strangers on the Internet. Another thing i have highlighted is the blue circles, which show that both girls have mobile phones next to them, which is very typical of a teenage girl. It is also another way to contact people you don't know, which is what our opening sequence is based on. The final aspect that i have circled are the mirrors; this is because you can quite clearly see that both girls are sat at their dressing tables, with their mirrors in front of them. This could possible be a sign of vanity, of the fact that they like to operate their laptops in their own personal area of their dressing table; this could possibly make them feel more comfortable with the fact that their are socialising with people they don't know.

There aren't many differences between the 2 images, the obvious thing that i have noticed is that the girl in "Chat Room" has her school books on her table, which suggests she is more intelligent and cares about her studies, which means she may use the Internet to talk to strangers in order to get away from her normal life. Yet the girl from "Have You Seen..." has more things such as perfume and jewellery which shows that she is more interested in self appearance other than her studies.

  The character I have represented in my opening sequence is a teenage girl. From what I have shown of her, the character appears to be rather easily led. There is nothing in particular that stands out in her appearance, so I wouldn't say she is a stereotypical 'chav' or 'emo', she is just an everyday youth. In the story line of my opening sequence she talks to someone that she met over the Internet, so she alone could be representing teenage girls in particular that are very easily led and deluded. This isn't a good way of representing teenage girls because it gets her in to a lot of trouble, but in terms of getting a message through to the audience, it is a good idea to show teenage girls what they shouldn't do and what is harmful on the Internet.