How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Poppy Moore is a main character in the teen angst film, Wild Child. She is portrayed as pretty, popular, stylish and cool! We tried to create our character based on this description. At first, Poppy is viewed as spoilt as she has every thing  she wants which is similar to the character I play. Poppy's parents are not together, she lives with her dad and step mum, which is similar to our film as the two characters parents have had a divorce in our film. Poppy enjoys working on her appearance and cares about the way she looks. For example, during Wild Child, she tries to change the way her school uniform looks and adds her own accessories. The teen angst we created is not as extreme as this, however, the character I play spends time picking out outfits and applying makeup which is a female stereotypical characteristic which some of our audience may apply to.

Poppy also doesn't seem to have many friends at first because she can be seen as mean and manipulative. The difference is, Caitlin has loads of friends because she is popular but looses hers near the end because they are not her true friends. Both characters are blonde, which is stereotypical shown in the majority of teen angsts like Angus Tongs, Regina George in Mean girls and picture this. The blonde female character is usually shown as the antagonist during this genre.

Danni's character is more like a protagonist. This is because she is nice, quiet and shy! She is shown as quite isolated and vulnerable during our opening. This character is the person who makes friends with the new kid because she is unhappy about being alone. The relationship between Charlotte and the new kid, Peter, begins to bloom throughout the process of this film. We got this idea from the character Cady Heron from Mean girls. Cady is presented as innocent and quiet which is the personality we were looking for Danni's character. Both, Cady and Danni are clueless about fashion compared to the other main female character. Danni has brunette hair which is shown as the more plain character during teen angst films. Danni and Cady are similar as they both have people who are mean to them such as the character I played and in Mean girls, the plastics are quite rude to Cady.

Sean is the person who plays the character Kyle. He is the mean but popular male role in our film opening. he is portrayed as spoilt because he always has to look the best with branded clothing such as Nike and Adidas to show he is wealthy. The character Chad from the film LOL has a similar personality to Kyle. This is because he is mean and very manipulative towards the other characters. He is viewed as popular and people are scared of him. However there were differences such as the way he dresses. Chad does not wear cool clothing. We got the idea of Kyle dressing well from another character which is a guy called Elton from Clueless. This is because he wears loads of stylish outfits which are branded and he looks very cool throughout the film.

'The new kid' Peter is played by Danny. He is the new boy at school who doesn't know his way around and gets lost. however he is not shy around other students as he asks Charlotte where his next class is. Peter is a stereotypical character. This is because he is a tall British male who would attract the female audience. This character is based on a male character called Freddie from Wild Child. Both characters have similar characteristics such as they both have a genuine personality, not shy talking to people however, they are not over confident. The characters are seen to be eye candy for the audience as well as the characters involved.