Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The main social group we have represented is British teenagers, however our representation could apply to more than just teenagers in Britain. Fish Tank and Kidulthood are both films which include representation of the same social group and this is what helped us decide how we wanted to represent our British teens. The difference between the British teens in both Kidulthood and Fish Tank is that they come from a working class background; our teenagers come from a lower-middle class background.

• We connoted this in their housing-Flo lives in a house which is relatively big in size so we decided to use this as our filming location for the party. However, the housing in Kidulthood is mainly council estate housing which connotes their poorer, working-class background.

• We did not follow the typical behaviour represented of boys and girls as shown in Kidulthood in our film. In our film, Lola is the violent female who lashes out against a calm and collected Marlon. Whereas in Kidulthood, the males are represented as aggressive with few violent female characters. Our main aim was to create awareness that males are not the only abusive/violent gender and break the gender stereotype that females are always the victim of violence. We also wanted to open people's eyes by telling the story from the abusive person's side which has not been done before in a British Indie teen drama. 

Dress:

By looking at our friends' dress and researching Kidulthood and Fish Tank, we were able to define the typical dress of teenagers living in London. This consisted of casual attire, often sporty and not too colourful. 

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Props:

The consumption of drugs and alcohol is a widely accepted stereotype of teenagers and young adults, especially those living in urban cities like London. We wanted to put this concept across in our film but without glamourising it or using it distastefully. 

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Relationships:

'Young love' is often a major theme in teenage dramas as this age is where you are experimenting with new things for the first time as a result of newly discovered freedoms. We therefore wanted to portray some romantic relationships in our film. We only represented heterosexual relationships but this was not on purpose. 

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In Kidulthood... 

Camera/editing:

We used fast-pace editing for all of our sequence to connote the teenage party atmosphere.

In this scene, we used lots of dissolves which symbolise and set up for Lola's break-down of emotions after realising what she has just done. The dissolves and disjointedness of shots also reflects her unstable state of mind. 

We added this 'double-vision' effect to these shots to show how Lola is consumed by substances and seeing a distorted reality.It also could portray that she is a reckless person.