Evaluation 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our main character represents the unpopular social group. The similarities between our main character and the main character from Easy A include: the fact that the two are seen as being quite unpopular, our character takes this a step further and explains the fact that the reason for this is his social anxiety whereas the main character from Easy A just explains that she prefers to stay under the radar - which somewhat implies slight anxiety. This is the main thing that we wanted to base our main character on - to represent what it is like to be unpopular. Both are shown to wear normal/casual clothes in the opening sequence which represents the fact that they don't want to draw attention to themselves.
There are quite a few differences between both main characters. The first and most obvious being the difference in gender, this was intentional as we wanted to show that anxiety can affect both genders equally. Originally our main character was going to be a girl but we changed it for this reason.
Our mean girls/Bullies don't really follow stereotypes, whilst stereotypical mean girls are shown to love the colour pink beyond obsession, our mean girls are shown to wear quite dark colours. Their hair between the two is also very different, stereotypical mean girls are represented as having long blonde hair whereas ours have short-mid length and dark colours. Our mean girls are meant to have a somewhat punk vibe to them instead of the clichѐd popular type.
Despite the differences, our mean girls still connote a sense of hate towards them which is demonstrated in the fact that they are beating someone up and through the use of the voice-over.
The best friend in our film takes some of its inspiration from the best friend seen in Easy A. This is because they aren't seen a lot and therefore don't draw the attention away from the main character. Another similarity is the fact that despite the unpopularity of the main character, the best friend doesn't mind being seen with him/her. Similarly to the main character, our best friend is the opposite gender as the best friend from Easy A - this wasn't done for any particular reason like the main character was however.
The best friend from easy A is shown to be quite weird (especially in comparison to the main character), our character doesn't stand out as much, this is because we wanted our film to be slightly more serious than stereotypical teen angst films.
Our main character represents the unpopular social group. The similarities between our main character and the main character from Easy A include: the fact that the two are seen as being quite unpopular, our character takes this a step further and explains the fact that the reason for this is his social anxiety whereas the main character from Easy A just explains that she prefers to stay under the radar - which somewhat implies slight anxiety. This is the main thing that we wanted to base our main character on - to represent what it is like to be unpopular. Both are shown to wear normal/casual clothes in the opening sequence which represents the fact that they don't want to draw attention to themselves.
There are quite a few differences between both main characters. The first and most obvious being the difference in gender, this was intentional as we wanted to show that anxiety can affect both genders equally. Originally our main character was going to be a girl but we changed it for this reason.
Our mean girls/Bullies don't really follow stereotypes, whilst stereotypical mean girls are shown to love the colour pink beyond obsession, our mean girls are shown to wear quite dark colours. Their hair between the two is also very different, stereotypical mean girls are represented as having long blonde hair whereas ours have short-mid length and dark colours. Our mean girls are meant to have a somewhat punk vibe to them instead of the clichѐd popular type.
Despite the differences, our mean girls still connote a sense of hate towards them which is demonstrated in the fact that they are beating someone up and through the use of the voice-over.
The best friend in our film takes some of its inspiration from the best friend seen in Easy A. This is because they aren't seen a lot and therefore don't draw the attention away from the main character. Another similarity is the fact that despite the unpopularity of the main character, the best friend doesn't mind being seen with him/her. Similarly to the main character, our best friend is the opposite gender as the best friend from Easy A - this wasn't done for any particular reason like the main character was however.
The best friend from easy A is shown to be quite weird (especially in comparison to the main character), our character doesn't stand out as much, this is because we wanted our film to be slightly more serious than stereotypical teen angst films.
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