AS R+P Post 4: Representation of social groups in our opening sequence

We aim to represent a range of ethnicities and genders in our opening sequence and throughout our film. We want our film to be strong on London culture, therefore it needs to show a mix of social groups to achieve this. Although our two main characters in the opening sequence will both be white British, our extras and leading characters in both our opening and full film will cover many ethnicities, social classes and both genders.
Although we will have a positive representation of both genders and ethnicities, we will include an obvious negative presentation of teenagers and young adults. For example, youths will be shown to be reckless and take part in illegal activities such as drug consumption and underage drinking.
We've decided to make the social class of our teenage group middle-class. We feel we can relate to this particular class the best and so, with our normal lifestyles and environments, can accurately represent this social class.

According to data from the crime survey for England and Wales, at least 4% of men aged 16-59 experienced domestic abuse in 2014/15. This is a relatively big figure, however the stigma around domestic violence is that the female is always the victim. We hope to appeal and sympathise to the male audience in this sense, because in one of our sub-stories the female abuses her boyfriend in our film.