How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our film is largely based around teenage girls and their problems and how they deal with them
Gender: Females
her clothes are feminine as she wears a skirt and cardigan, this represents her character, she is a normal girl on the outside, you cannot notice her fears and worries. She has natural makeup, displaying how she doesn’t like to be in the spotlight. Her green converse are battered and dirty, suggesting she spends alot of time outdoors as that is her way of calming herself from her anxiety.
In our film opening our character is lonely, she is by herself, this suggests she isolates herself from other people, she likes to be by herself, this is shown when she rushes outside and sits by a tree listening to her music. Her music is her life and keeps her happy and calm.
This character represents the outcast people who feel they are too ashamed or frustrated to share their problems, they keep it to themselves, this is not the way you should handle your worries, however people still do it and it just leaves them sad and worrisome. This character however has found a way to handle her anxiety, she listens to her music, this brings her piece of mind back down to earth where she can wind down and let her fears float away. She represents alot of teenagers across the world who have to handle with conditions such as mental problems, anxiety, fear. The character simply teaches that there is a way to handle it, you must find what works for you, what keeps you calm and happy.
This short film has a setting partly indoors, but is mostly filmed outdoors. There is a meaning of this. The outdoors is a place of nature, there are birds, trees, flowers, grass and sky. The calming sound of bird songs and the whistle of the wind links to the characters anxiety issues as the outdoors provides her with somewhere where she can go which makes her feel happy and herself. She is not a teenager who spends her time on social media, is obsessed with ipads and technology and is wrapped up in her own selfishness. She is a girl of nature who just longs for her anxiety to not get the better of her and embarrass her.
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