How does your media product represent particular social groups?

'Adulthood'

'Thug Britain'

Our opening scene represents 'Thugs' as a social group. One of the ways we tried to do this was the costumes. We used the clothes worn to help show the genre of the film and social group. Hoodies, tracksuits and hats were the main items of clothing chosen to help set the scene in our film. We also chose to make the opening quick and jumpy. This is because we wanted to show though the pace of our film the social group we chose are always out and on the go. Our setting was a very important factor to making the film look realistic. For instance for the drug scene we chose a deserted tunnel to film in, somewhere were you would normally find dodgy deals going on.

The steryotypes we tryed to create were a modern day 'Thug'. "Thug, a criminal, who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire. Often a member of a gang, as an enforcer in organized crime." Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thug. From our film it is clear the casting were too young to be clased as a Thug and not have any sterotipical features such as a skinhead. However we fell we showed a different type of Thug. With hoods used we felt this helped create a modern teenage steryotype.