Evaluation Question 2 - How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

Our media product shows the representation of gender and age, in the struggles that all young girls go through in todays society in simply walking home by themselves. The paranoid nature of the main girl, while can be viewed as extreme, it is common amongst people of her demographic in this day with terrifyingly high statistics of muggings and rapes on the street. 1/5 Women will experience some sort of sexual assault in their lives with 30% of them experiencing domestic abuse. As well as this mugging rates are nearly reaching 400,000 a year across England and Wales. In contrast to our representation of the victimised young woman we display a negative male representation of the malicious man with harmful intentions. Our decision to dress the male all in black immediately highlights him as a dangerous figure and someone to be vary us, especially as the audience is not able to see his face, giving him a sense of humanity. This stereotype of men being dangerous whilst women are always the victim is actually very incorrect in todays society with 2/3 of mugging victims actually being male.

To display this information creatively and look into similar films who have also tackled the topic of stalking with a variety of genders I have created a short animated video which can be found here.

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