Evaluation Task 2: How does your product represent paticular social groups?

Our product has taken something that has really happened in the world and recreated it from one persons perspective, and one persons fictional story of what happened during the riots. Becuase the London riots did happen not too long ago, there is a paticular social group that still exists. The social group we aimed to create in our film are the younger part of society that that would riot because of either boredom or because of gang culture peer pressuring them to, or because they feel they need to take things from shops because they can not afford them. The stereotypical social group that would do this, would normally wear tracksuits, a hood and possibly be carrying a weapon. The sort of group we were aiming to represent were dissaffected youths. These people dont have access to employment, could be drug users, or could have dropped out of school. This could all leed to boredom, which can lead to things such as rioting to pass time and create an adrenaline rush.

This is the type of social group we were representing in our thriller

The social group we are representing usually is recognisable as someone up to no good. The type of clothing they wear; for example, their hood up, or a balaclava on, is a way of loosing their identity in society. This can make people feel uneasy and scared as soon as they see someone dressed this way. We dressed our main character up to look like he was part of this social group. We also tried to show this throught the shots we chose. For example some shots where used to cover the identity of the main character. This shot below the hand is in the way of his face. This represents that this social group feel they have no place in society, aswell as how they hide their identity so that the things they do, such as blowing up cars dont seem as bad. It also makes the audience feel uneasy as you cant see the mans face in the shots yet. This is similar to what the hood and balaclava do.

This shows the amount of rioting that went on with the real social group in London that we were recreating in our media product.