Rach evaluation media-question 2
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The document discusses representation of social groups in media. It summarizes that representation can be stereotypical and sometimes negative, perpetuating societal stereotypes. The media product represents children, parents, and young-mid aged female adults. Children are the main represented group as the main character is a child. Children are often portrayed innocently in media but sometimes as evil or demented. The document discusses how the media product represents the child character positively at first as a happy adopted child, but then negatively as a disturbed child suffering from schizophrenia, showing both positive and negative representations of children as a social group.
Rach evaluation media-question 2
- 1. Q2:How does your media product represent particular social groups?
- 2. What is Representation? Representation in media has quite a few definitions, such as: • It is how the media represents the world to us • It is a depiction of something in real life but does not show real life. • It is often stereotypical, which in most cases negative to which perpetuates stereotypes within our society. ….. And lots more!!
- 3. S o c ia l G r o u p s Inmy film opening we have represented various social groups: Children Parents Young to mid age female adults Out of all the brief three social groups mentioned above, I would say children was the main social group. This is because a child was our main character in our film.
- 4. Representation of Children • In most films children are often brought across as innocent. For example; Matilda, Pursuit of happiness, daddy day care, miracle on 34th street and lots more.
- 5. However, sometimes this can be the opposite. Children can be represented as evil to some extent, which cause the child to be considered as demented. Examples of films which have represented children like this are the omen, orphan, sixth sense, hide & seek.
- 6. Positive or Negative? I think in terms of deciding whether I’ve represented my social groups as negative or positive is not something I can give one answer or a specific answer to because we represented both. The child was represented as a young innocent child who was happy to go home with her new adopted family, however she then turns to a disturbed child which then shows the social group of children being represented negatively. Little do we know that this child is suffering from a mental illness called schizophrenia which results in her behavior. Relating to real media, the plot of our film is based from the film of the orphan where the child ‘Esther’ is the girl suffering from the mental illness.