Evaluation

Question 2

How does your media product represent

particular social groups?

The main character in our film is called Chester Wallace who is seen to be a normal teenage boy who enjoys cycling around with his friends on his bike. In the beginning of our film we have only featured one type of social group which is young teenage boys. We have represented young teenage boys to be quite careless whilst cycling fast through the back streets, disregarding traffic. We have represented Chester as confident and sociable as we included tracking shots with him and his friends enjoying themselves. He is also depicted as active, someone who likes to be outdoors, rather than at home on his computer. We represented him in external scenes in order to achieve this in this part of the film.

In the second part of our opening scene Chester is shown to be depressed with the use of long takes and slow paced editing to make the audience feel sorry for him, as he has just lost his best friend. We have also used a non-diegetic piano piece to add to the sentimentality of the scene.