(2) How does your media product represent social groups?

My media product represents social groups as teenagers are usually associated with crime. Also, the props and clothing we have chosen to use on our characters is key, the hoody being the stereotypical item of clothing for a teenager, giving groups of disruptive teenagers, the nickname "hoodies". Also, for the props that we have used, the briefcase and newspaper (The Times) connote power, authority and give the impression of middle/upper class.

As you can see we haven't ideally captured the representation of a disruptive teenager, however we incorperated the clothing related with this social group.

As our film is based on a bank robbery we thought that to challenge the conventions of a usual robbery we would have a teenager in it as well as an older more sophisticated male who dresses much smarter and this created a contrast. Steve is the person that gets betrayed by Gaz which is also different as you would think that the smarter dressed character would have more knowledge and would outsmart the teenager, however this is not the case.

Here Steve is wearing a shirt which makes him look more sophistecated and knowledgable.