Evaluation question 2.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I wanted the male characters to be typical teenage boys in my product, so I looked at characters from other teen films such as Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging, and also teen television programmes such as Skins and The Inbetweeners. I liked how banter was created between male characters in these media texts, so I throughly researched them.

I also looked at the way that male freindships are shown in the film Superbad.

With the female characters, I had to research a variety of different characters, as they are different from each other.

Pearl:

I wanted Pearl to a bit unusal and quirky, so I researched characters such as Cassie from the TV show Skins, as she is ditzy, and has similar character traits to what I wanted to create for Pearl.
Nicola:
I wanted Nicola to be representative of the ordinary teenage girl. I looked at upbeat and friendly girls such as Gabriella Montez from High School Musical. I wanted to show that Nicola is studious and kind, but also makes time for all of her friends.
Megan:

Megan is the stereotypical "bitch" character, a negative representation of teenage girls. I used body language and costume to show this. Megan is wearing lots of black clothes, which are tight, showing her possible promiscousy.