Representation
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This document discusses the representation of women and social issues in an opening scene. Women are presented in both confident and "bitchy" ways, portraying the importance of looks but also engaging in bullying. Bullying is highlighted as an important issue, with examples like name-calling. While the mean girls hold power over the vulnerable student, women are not always dominant - in one scene, the two girls find their friend hanging and become vulnerable themselves. A common representation is of the lonely, isolated girl who allows herself to be picked on, appearing weak.
Representation
- 1. Representation I will analyse the issue regarding the representation of particular social groups within our opening scene, which are women and the social issues of bullying, unforgiving and unforgiving. Women are presented in many different lights, for example women are presented as quite confident, as we see this in the first scene were the school photo takes place; a group of girls prepare themselves for the photo by checking their hair and make-up. This represents the importance that women have on looks and image, portraying a vain image of women which the audience might find negative and will think they’re arrogant and conceited. Towards the end of the first scene we see women being represented as bitchy as the group of girls laugh and shove another student. We see this attitude again in the second scene were the group of girls sits behind the same student they previously interacted with as they laugh and tease her, this attitude reflects on the important issue of bullying. The image below is an example of bullying within a classroom .
- 2. We purposely included this social issue in our opening scene as we believed it is an important issue that should be resolved in society. Some of the ways bullying occurs is by leaving out an individual in activities, not talking to them, threatening them or in my film’s case, calling and saying nasty things to an individual. Taken all these examples of bullying in consideration we decided to use the calling of names and the scorn that the girls give to the other because we believe these are common types of bullying that happens in schools. Most media production tends to portray men as the powerful character however, due to the lack of male characters in our opening film the women are presented as the powerful character. This is shown through the scenes as we see the group of girls repeatedly having the power over the vulnerable student by teasing her. However, women are not always dominant and in power, therefore women are represented as the hegemonic stereotype of being vulnerable and weak. For example, in the bathroom scene, the vulnerable student has just run out leaving the group of girls to laugh. One of the girls walks over to be the vulnerable girl ran out and messes around with the rope, pretending to hand herself. Suddenly the lights flicker and all is black. As soon as the lights come on the two girls find their friend hanging from the cubicle, they then become in a non-dominant position and soon find themselves screaming and banging for the door to open. They then become in a vulnerable position. A most common representation of this typical view on women is throughout the scenes as the vulnerable girl doesn’t have any friends to hang around with, always gets picked by the group of mean girls and is isolated and lonely at school. She is weak because doesn’t stand up for herself making her vulnerable and allows herself to be picked on.