Evaluation: Question 2

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

There are three main characters to my media text & they are Edd, Iona & Brook.

Edd is portrayed in the film as an intimidating “bad ass” that does not care about what people think or say about him. He goes about his ways doing what he wants when he wants to do it with little or no regard for other people. This is due to Edd’s childhood background growing up in an urban ghetto.

The type of character Edd plays comes through to the audience in the way that he behaves for example strapping a person to a car & demanding money from them. Throughout the chase scenes a different side to Edd comes through because he is scared & worried. This shows that all the wrong he has done to someone is coming back to bite him.

Iona’s character is portrayed as this sweet & innocent girl on the outside but she doesn’t take any messing about from anyone & she is Edd’s girlfriend. The type of character that Iona plays comes through in the phone conversation with Edd where she threatens to set her brother on him. Although Iona’s character is different to Edd’s there are still similar ties because between them because she has a strong family bond & many of her family members are used to fighting & doing dirty work to get the job done like Edd is used to.

Brook’s character is different to Edd & Iona mainly because of the way they dress and the social groups they associate with. For example Brook unlike Edd is very conscious of his image & what people think of him. I believe this reflects the youth of today very well as we are categorised into very specific stereotypical groups but really it is a very unfair & judgmental system because people are not as they actually seem from first glance & this is what I was hoping to achieve with this film to prove that even though Edd is in the wrong for his doing but that is due to his upbringing. There is a lot of close ups of Edds face which really show his emotion throughout the chase where he is worried & scared even though he is supposed to be the “hard man”.