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

In our media product there are several representations. The main things represented are gender, abusive parents, and their relationship with their children. There isn't really any race representation, but you could say there is a representation of status due to the relationship between father and daughter. Gender in our film seems to be male dominated - Robin controls Sam, shouts at her, and even hits her. This also represents fathers as being dominating and angered. You could also say it represents men who drink as violent (as he is seen with a bottle of alcohol). Also the hung helper seems to know alot about the setting and even Sam herself. This could be representing males as smart, but like to keep it to themselves, as he doesnt give much away to Sam. It could be said that in our film, females are represented as weak, as Sam is abused, and in the narrative she dies (however this was not shown in the opening 2 minutes, so as to not give away too much). But in saying that, she also would fight back had we make the rest of the film. So twisting representations of women she could be seen as a strong person. The fact Sam has no mother could also say that there are representations of single fathers. This could be what pushed him to drink and abuse. Generally our representations are quite similar to usual stereotypes. Although I believe this is because what we hear as stereotypes comes through when trying to build characters, whether it be intentional or inadvertently.