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

Our main focus on representations of social groups were age and gender, we wanted to challenge typical negative stereotypes of young people. Such as some shown on the news like when the London riots occured which made young people seem like hooligans and thugs. We also wanted to show that women can be leaders and are brave, we also hoped to show males and females at equal level when doing physical work like fighting zombies.


Representation of young males in our film

The characters shown in films seem to reflect and effect the representations of people that age and particular social groups. In our opening sequence we show two young males, but who seem quite mature and seem quite experienced and intelligent.
Maran:

Maran is a young adult, but is quite mature for his age. His characteristics are intelligent, confident and a good fighter.

This challenges the stereotype that young people are immature and can be obnoxious.



Daniel:

Daniel is also a young adult, and mature for his age. He is a weapon expert and very courageous.

This challenges the stereotype that young people are naive, as he as the intelligent enough to use guns and weapons.



Female character introduced later on

Later on in the film a female character in the early twenties would be introduced, who would have combat skills and a leadership trait. She would be challenge the typical stereotype that only the males would to the hard labour and fighting and be shown leading and controlling men.

Picture of Michone from the TV series 'The Walking Dead'. This survivor is similar to how I would portray the female introduced later on in 'Element 115'. She is good at fighting and is thought of as an equal to the other male survivors.