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

By: Maximilian

Teenagers - are often shown as either being vulnerable, depressed and insane or loud, obnoxious or out of control. In our opening we represent the stereotype of him being mentally insane and also reckless because of him killing his mother, but this could be seen as the cause of a build up of stress which has resulted him into killing his mother.






Gender- Males are usually represented as being more dominant and more violent than females. We conformed to this stereotype as the male character has killed the female character being he mum which also conforms to the stereotype that females are weaker than men. Also it was easier to portray the man as the psychotic killer since in most movies e.g (The Machinist, 2004, Brad Anderson) they have the male character being mental. We decided to kill a female in our film because it represents the stereotype that females mostly become the victims of murders and crimes.



In Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly) we have a mentally unstable teenager who can see an imaginary person called Frank which he kills at the end but he subliminally doesn't know that. We can relate Donnie to our main character called Frank because of them both wearing dark clothing, having scary yet expressionless faces, and because of their mental states since they both have killed someone.