EVALUATION

Part 5 – How does your media product represent particular social groups?

While making the film no stereotypes were aimed at anyone. However, looking back at it, Leila looks like a stereotyped young woman. One of the main reasons may be for her being easy going. She would be classed as a typical young woman as she is the type to fall in love quickly, which means that she is not likely to notice the unpleasant behavior of Danny. Also, she invites a stranger to come to her house at night time as his electricity is not working; this may represent young women as not so clever who cannot look after themselves.

The camera shots used are mostly wide shots and very bright lighting has been used. This lets the audience view her whole identity easily which shows that she has nothing to hide. This may be a good thing towards showing the audience that she is the good character, but maybe she has revealed too much towards the pupils living in her area/world. As she is easy to study anything bad could come her way.

The editing towards Leila has not affected the stereotype of her, as most of the editing is the same throughout the whole sequence.

The sound has also not given an affect towards Leila and the stereotypes as the sounds used are suitable for both Danny and Leila. However, the main instrumental track is an R&B song which may relate to young women once more as this is the type of music that most young women are most likely to listen to.

Not only the camera work, the sound and the editing give away the stereotype of Leila. Her appearance through clothes also gives away a lot, as she wants to impress somebody. This is viewed by her wearing a designer bag as well as high boots. The appearance through clothing links to stereotypes as most young women are likely to dress to impress.

I would not say that Danny has been represented as any youth from London, not for what he is. However, as he wears a hood and he is violent this may be what some people see young male adults to be like. Also the dark shots create a dark and an unpleasant side of Danny which may create a bad stereotype towards young men. This was not part of the aim, but looking back at our title sequence the stereotype appears towards Danny. He has been represented in a rather bad way, for the reason of him being violent. Also the way Danny talks is heard a lot in London which some people may refer to the pupils that actually use this type of language and get an idea of young male adults being violent and unpleasant. The identity is not just hidden by Danny’s hood, but it is also hidden by the shots used, which crop parts of him out most of the times. He keeps the conversation short between him and Leila, which may mean that he does not want anyone to know a lot about him.