How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As you can see from our film, most of the characters are men, with the exception of the barmaid. We were trying to get across to the audience the arrogance that these men show towards women by treating them as less than equals, and with little respect. It is obvious we have not portrayed teenagers in a good light in our piece. Indeed, if you were looking at this film and you hadn’t experienced how teenagers behaved in this country, then you might think that this is representative of all young men’s actions.

The characters are all meant to be from South London and, without exception, are a threat to anyone who argues with them. The two gangs in the film are sworn enemies and have had many conflicts over the years. We do not find out the background to this hatred in the film, but we can tell it is a deep hatred.

We wanted the actors to wear very simple plain cheap clothes to symbolise that these people are from a poor background. You can see very clearly from these two pictures what we wanted to create. The picture from the film Green Street Hooligans is in many ways similar to ours, the characters are standing in the same way, hands crossed, or hands in pockets. Also the clothes are similar, dark dingy plain coloured clothes.