Evaluation 2 - How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

In our film, we tried to create some 'stereotypical' characters, and also try to produce a countertype for our main character. Films such as Easy A took a major inspiration from this aspect as we tried to make a unique character who didn't quite fit into a school stereotype. Other characters, which didn't take such a big spotlight in the film, typically fit into a certain stereotype which ultimately helped bring together the school setting for our introduction.

An example of some of the stereotypes used would be a group of 'mean girls', which appear briefly bullying someone just outside the school in a courtyard. This was primarily implemented to help create a more 'busy' atmosphere, which helps create interest.

Our second 'social group' is of the main character and his friend. This was also taken directly as inspiration from Easy A as we liked the idea of the main character having one good friend.

And the main character themselves can be compared directly to that of Olive in Easy A. The character would show themselves to be quite similar to that of Olive, although this can't be clearly seen in the introduction we have produced. But in the context of the entire film, this comparison would be made quite evident.

We found it especially challenging to implement more social groups, as we were limited as to what times of day we could film. Filming at a 'busy' time of day at our school was too challenging and when we attempted to do so, it was often difficult to frame our character correctly and make the audience easily see our character.

This is where our inspiration for Easy A was particularly difficult to fully implement into our film, as we found it a challenge to implement many social groups that a school typically contains. Many people whom we had asked was often not available and they wouldn't be able to help act in our film. We were only able to get one stereotypical social group, and due to limitations of time we were not able to make our product exactly to how we would've liked.

This particular aspect of our film was where we felt we could've improved the most in our film as we couldn't effectively create a busy school environment with the timeframe we were provided.