1. 2) How does your media product
represent particular social groups?

2. There are two main characters Mollie and Lyle, as Lyle is twenty
and five years older than Mollie who is still in high school it is
apparent that they would not belong to the same social group.
However as the audience would not know this during the first two
minutes of the opening we had to represent though how the
characters looks and is dresses.

3. Mollie is from a good home, we can tell from her
clothing and her hair and make-up, which are all near
perfect as she cares on her looks and appearance. She
is from the popular crowd at school and can be seen
from how she wears her uniform and the accessories
which she wears including the bag and headband
which are all in fashion. Mollie would belong to the
main stream group, as she is fifteen she clearly follows
the social trends of not just of her friends but also the
latest fashion, to show this we chose that she should
wear Uggs as they are worn by thousands of teenage
girls. Also the jeans and top she wore were very up to
data fashion wise to show that the character cares
about her appearance and socially wants to fit in. To
show that she is also busy with friends, she is always
out socialising this is when the character Lyle has
chance to following her round filming and taking
pictures of her. We wanted her to be the completed
opposite to the character Lyle to show that they have
contrasting personality and lifestyles.

4. We chose that the character Lyle wouldn’t fit into any social
group as his is somewhat of a outsider, and that he’s too shy
to socialise, therefore has to ‘stalk’ the girl he loves rather to
talk to her. As Lyle needed to be seen as the reverse of Mollie
he lives in a small, damp, dark shed which he lives in alone,
which also conveys to the audience that he has little/ no
money, which again links back to being the opposite of her.
The fact he has no money and is unemployed is then linked to
his costume. We chose to dress him in clearly old, shabby and
dirty items, which present his personality of being a dirty
person, as he stalks a girl much younger than him. We also
chose that he would have long, dirty, unwashed hair, which
again links to him being unemployed and not having the
money do anything to it. The character Lyle portrays a
stereotypical ‘stalker’ in the sense that they aren’t typically
nice, clean people and that he would rather spend his money
following Mollie round than on the way he looks. As he is
unemployed meaning little money, he simply does not have
the money to socialise which puts him as an outsider.