Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film opening would mainly represent male teenagers. The story itself is of orphan teenager who is beaten by his adopted parents and it is his story of coming to the age being independent and being able to leave home, hence the name Runaway. Predominately the film is about teenagers and growing up, however certain groups could be specified within the age range of teenagers.

One clear representation is orphaned children. We hope our piece would show them as being just normal people, that is why in our piece we had our protagonist who is a orphan wearing regular clothes just like any other teenager. We wanted our character to be viewed as a regular teenager and not some stereotype of a orphan, so the audience can relate to the character and understand his emotion, rather than having him as a stereotypical orphan which would be a false representation. We showed the characters emotion through the use of close ups on his face and the dark, grey, dull setting of the piece. This helps the audience in identifying his emotions.

Our piece itself does not look into male or female representations, we decided we should not draw into particular issues of male and female and rather focus on issues in general as being a teenager or being a orphan.