Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film opening represents common british sixth-form social groups in a very stereotypical manor.
We represented 6 different social groups in our opening sequence:

• The Chavs
• The Outsiders
• The Goths
• The Hipsters
• The Athletes
• The Geeks

All the actors were dressed specifically in order to connote their designated cliques and our main tool for doing so was tailoring their costumes and props, to clearly define the groups. We used this method, because accents and scripts were not able to establish a clear difference between them, this was due to the lack of clear dialogue, with the exception of the chavs. 

Therefore, it was essential that we understood and connoted the different representations effectively.

We began by, making a character board (for each role) listing, what they were going to wear, why they were going to wear it and the references we found to support our ideas. 

Here is a selection of the boards we made:
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Character board for the male geek (in relation to costume). 

Character board for the male goth (in relation to costume). 

In addition, we also styled their actions and mannerisms to enhance the recognizability of the different social cliques. Here is the chavs behavior board:
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Character board for the male goth (in relation to accents and manerisms). 

The video below shows social cliques that we represented in the final cut of our opening sequence.

Overall, we represented a large range of social groups and Arthur doesn't fit in to any of them, further emphasizing his feelings of loneliness and isolation. This means yet another group is created and with the seven different groups we are able to represent and relate to a large cross-section of British youths.