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

In our film opening we have focused of the representation of gender, and of that, age.
The following Prezi explains how we have chosen to represent our two main characters, Dan and Lucy.

This Voki is a self-characterisation of the protagonist Dan:

We chose to make our protagonist a conventional teenage male in this way in order to make him a relatable character for our target audience while making him realistic and believable, conventional of the genre.

As well creating representations of individual characters, we wanted to represent British youth as a whole. Rather than representing our characters in an entirely negative way, for example involved in drugs and partying like Skins, or drug-dealing and gun crime like Kidulthood, we wanted to create an entirely realistic representation of British youth. Therefore, our film will have a broad appeal within the 16-24 market as people from different backgrounds will relate. This representation does have some negative factors such as the crime Dan is involved in, however it is supposed to show that teenagers can get involved in these issues without intending to. Our intention is for our film to create a better understanding of British youth rather than a criticism.

One of the main factors we focused on was relationships. We wanted to present young relationships in a realistic way, showing not only how important they can be to teenagers, but also the negative impact they can have when there are problems.