Evaluation Question 2 - Representation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This is the second question that you have to address in your evaluation. Think back to Unit G322 - half of this paper was about the key concept of Representation; you wrote an essay about representation of age in Monarch of the Glen! Refer back to your notes from this unit to answer this question - all that stuff about stereotypes and so on should come flooding back quite quickly.

Use the following questions to guide your response to this question:

Which social groups (age, race, religion, gender, sexuality, region, any other as relevant) are shown in your film opening?
What are people from these social groups shown doing and saying?
Are they represented positively or negatively? How is this achieved? Think about dialogue, camerawork, editing, music, mise-en-scene etc. ect.)
How are people from different social groups represented in comparison to each other?
Are the representations stereotypical or countertypical? Or balanced?
How are the audience positioned in relation to the characters?

More on question 3 soon...