Applying Represention ( Social Groups) to AS COURSEWORK

When the media turn their attention to the poorest social gorups, the portrayals are often negative or quite stereotypial. The poor are usually portrayed in quantitive instead of qualitative  measures which focus on the numbers that are unemplyed or on benefits, while the wealthy are portrayed in a positive light I.e people focus more on inanimate objects such as luxary cars, costly holiday areas and fashion that only the wealthy can afford.

In our AS coursework, the social groups concerned were young adults, both male, the fact that they don't appear to be in education or a job, portrays the particular social group as lazy, yobs who don't care about their future and probably get involved in the crime world in order to pay their way in this world. This is very stereotypical of young adult males and this is shown in our AS coursework. So we portrayed them in a negative light.

We represented specific groups i.e the fact that young people are unemployed and on benefits with no aspirations in life through the way they spoke to each other, the power of their delivery shows that they are aggressive and even threatening to kill the other person with a chainsaw. The location where the opening sequence was set was somewhere dark and isolated, somewhere in social housing which shows where they live, the character in black is wearing a hoodie, which is stereotypical of youths with bad and lazy attitudes, wearing black, instead of light colours. And the fact that in the end, the character in white gets murdered, justifies the stereotypical representations of the young adults.