How our media product represents a particular social group

How does your media product represent particular social group?

This is our character who plays the sympathetic victim, Serafina, She appears very innocent and childish with her school uniform. As she is the victim of the danger within the family the audience feel empathy for her and therefore dislike the parents. by having a young child as the victim at the beginning, helps the audience understand her paranoia when she grows up and therefore allows the audience to understand her like from beginning to end.By showing the journey of her life and the obstacles she has to overcome, the audience feel a greater connection to her and therefore can feel more empathy when things go wrong. we decided to show her laughing along with her family to show that she is a very sweet girl who has a very innocent personality and then juxtapose it with the scenes of her parents arguing and telling her to go away. We thought we would keep her in her school uniform as it created an element of normality from the audience and they would feel the connection from when they were younger.

This is the young girl from the lovely bones; she plays the victim in a kidnapping. We believe our character follows the same conventions as this girl as they are very innocent looking and are separate to the rest of society. Our character isn't blonde like this one, often the blondness connotes innocents and angelic nature however, Serafina is very young and beautiful and therefore gives the same effect. In the lovely bones, she has parents that often argue and cause he to get very upset, this follows a similar sequence to our film as we thought it had a good impact on the audience.