How does your media product represent different social groups?

Our film is set in a modern-day society, and has such hints at the different subcultures within youth culture today. The main protagonist of our film is a male youth, a college student, a group often associated with being joyous and carefree, however this stereotype is broken in our clip, as the youth is shown to be deeply disturbed, having had a traumatic experience. We can see this through the use of facial expressions during the scene., which are meant to show the character has depressed, with a defeated, crumpled look.

The character is also socially relevant, as he represents the sub-culture known as “emo” – an emotional youth, we chose to show this In his outfit.

As the character is an adolescent, he is inbetween being a child and a man, this shows the difficulty teenagers face in dealing with experiences like this. The character is alone throughout the clip, showing he would rather brood on the thoughts himself than be comforted by others.

The secondary character, Raphael, is also significant. The characters are shown to have a very strong friendship, this goes against the usual stereotypes of black and white people as being divided into two social groups. However, there friendships shows unity.