Amanda Wan - Question 2

Question 2 – How does your media product represent particular social group?

Our media product portrays the typical social group of teenagers /students in particularly teenage girls in two different sides of the spectrum. Within our media product, our character Chloe transformed from a typical popular teenage student to a psychotic and mentally disturbed victim.

Famous chick flick movies such as Mean Girls and drama series such as 90210 have adapted stereotypical teenage characters in which they are glamorized and are portrayed as being attractive, privileged and popular amongst their peers. Their behavior are often presented as being self centered, irresponsible and sexualized, we have adapted a few featured of this stereotype of teenage girls in our media product to make our character Chloe easily identifiable to our audiences.

For the majority of our media product, our character Chloe is presented to be very collected and confident; this is shown through her perfect hair and makeup as well as her fashionable clothing which directly tie in with the typical member of a popular teenage social group.

On the other extreme end, the stereotypical representation of teenage girls is that they are often troubled, which often leads them to become mentally unstable and are constantly in unsound state of mind, television dramas such as Skins have successfully portrayed such character. During the first scene of our opening sequence, our character is shown to be in a isolated psychiatric centre, her messy hair and smudged makeup visibly shows that she is in an unstable state which furthers the idea that she is vulnerable and fragile which is generally also seen as the characteristics of a victim in a thriller movie.