How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our film's two character both relate to very popular teenage lifestyles, however both of these are very different lifestyles.
The female character in our film is psychologically effected from the death of her mother that has committed suicide, nowadays depression is extremely common throughout a teenagers lifestyle and is the most common mood disorder today, this means a lot of teenagers (maybe even more so teenage girls) can relate to the character and have an understanding of what she is going through. Even though the character's lifestyle is portrayed as negative and hopeless the ending to the opening shows her falling in love with a man who's life is completely different to hers, this helps us spread a positive message that even if your life is not the best it doesn't mean good things can't happen.
The male character's
As well as the female characters the male's lifestyle also is extremely common within teenagers, he lives a very party-hard, "live life to the fullest" lifestyle in which he'll just go to parties, do drugs and be with other celebrities. We believe that this also relates to many teenagers nowadays (which may not be a good thing), but it definitely can be relate-able to the audience. We have presented the male in a positive aspect because like real media today, it appears that all rich, celebrity like people do is drugs and party therefore we really wanted to portray this and was emphasised a lot in the voice over.
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