How does our media product represent particular social group.

Within our opening sequence we have use three characters Detective Brown, the Victim and the Murderer. All three of these characters have completely different representation of social groups. For example the victim of the murderer would represent a stereotypical social group of an older teenage girl student attending university, has a small group of good friends and is friendly, lively and always there to help a friend out. This is her first time living on her own and experienced what its like to live away for parents. However while she is studying she becomes good friend with a boy of the same age, appears to share the same interest and confineneds in him as a close friend. After being close friends with him for a few months she starts to find herself

wanting to be more than friends even though she is aware that he has anger problems. For the first time one evening at her flat she finds out first hand whats its like to be on the other end of one of his angry outrages. We know that our victim knows the murderer as she sit backs and takes the fighting which is very unexpected as if it was a stranger you would instantly run away. Her character is easy to relate to and for other girls to understand how she would be feeling. We can liken her character to Little Mo from the BBC programme EastEnders. She was a friendly, loving and funny however found herself in a horrible situation when her husband started to become violent towards her. She felt that she couldn't leave him as it was her job to stick by him and try to find the problems that were causing the anger. http://estb.msn.com/i/4C/E244EB6D1F41CDA34B146BDB5D591D.jpg

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However on the other hand the murder in our opening sequence represents the same social group being of the same age as the victim but rather than being a student and attending university he comes from a criminal background. A criminal background is very easy to relate to as an audience as its shown on films on a regular basis.

The Detective in our opening sequence comes from a completely different social group of more of an older background. He represents a stereotypical man in high power and has collected detailed work experience and as worked his way up in his career. This could be related to a younger social group as something they could aspire to be like and to have the drive to work hard and move up within a business or company. We tried to create a detective of the same stereotype as detective Tom Barnaby from Midsommer Murders. If we where to recreate our opening sequence we would try to find and slightly older actor and place him in a jacket.

This is John Nettles he is a actor and plays the role of a detective in an ongoing show called Midsummer Murders. He would present the same social groups as our detective as he is of a high power within his job and has a large amount of experience. We can see from the picture that they are both similar as they are wearing the same clothes and look professional.