Evaluation Task 2

How does your media product represent particular social media groups?

The main representation we presented in our film opening and title sequence was age. The age

group we represented mainly was teenagers, although we did also feature young children in our

sequence. In many films today and also in society teenagers are portrayed as disruptive youth

rebelling and getting in trouble with the law; we wanted to create a counter type of this by showing

the couple in our story as calm, happy, quiet and content with their lives together. We also showed

that life can be ended at any age, not just stereotypically when you are older, and that you should

make the most of life whilst you have it.

The age of the characters is also shown through costume and props. When they are children, they

are both wearing casual clothes and warm coats. Each child has one item of clothing that is quite

bright in colour, representing their youth.

When the pair become teenagers, their dress is a lot more formal and grown up as we kept our

characters in the sixth form clothes they had been wearing that day at school to reflect what

characters of that age would actually be wearing and to show that they have matured. However we

made them look more casual and as though they were no longer in school by removing blazers etc.

and also getting Callum who plays Sam to roll up his sleeves.

However we kept an element of their childhood present by keeping the Peppa Pig watch on the

character Emily during the transition from children to teenagers. This helps signify that although the

characters have aged, they are still the same people and by the use of them holding hands during

the transition that they also still have a strong connection between them that has perhaps

developed even further over time.

Another film from the same Romantic Drama genre that uses costume to represent passing time and

aging is The Notebook.

During the flashback story, we see the two main characters Noah and Ally go from being teenagers

to young adults over a period of time. To do this not only do they mature in dress sense and become

more formal and ‘adult’, but their clothes also change with the fashion of the time period as we

progress throughout the 1930’s and 40’s to show the change in decade. Also Noah grows a beard

and Allys hair changes with the latest trend to show that they are growing up and time is passing.