Evaluation Post 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation of different social groups is important in films. You need a mixture of recognisable stereotypes for the audience to identify so as to meet expectations, but you also need to challenge them somewhat to present a more realistic and appealing set of characters. This emaze presentation will describe how our media product represents social groups, by describing how we constructed one representation in detail.


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This is the process we followed for all of the social groups in our film, as well as the philosophy behind our choices. However, it is important to note that the working class is one of the more detailed representations because of the impact it has on the story; namely that the detective also harbours the prejudices that have lead to modern stereotypes about the working class today.