evalutation task 2 - how does your product represent particular soical groups?

Our product represents certain social groups, one that now days young people have a far better idea of technology than the older generation and it seems to rule their lives.

However, usually people that are good with technology are normally seen as ‘geeks’ so in our product we took away from the stereotypical view that anyone that could hack into important government files must first be male and second a ‘geek’. So even though this idea of rapidly increasing use of technology in young people is touched upon, it is with an attractive girl. This idea is similar in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’.

Also the social group nowadays that is thought of to be violent such as gangs is questioned when a girl turns out to be the violent one:

Here we chose to represent violence in an abrupt and visual way, but it still takes away from the stereotypical view that the media normally presents, that male characters are usually the ones who are the violent ones and the killers, where in our product the initial victim comes out alive and the man she was being stalked by ended up dead. The product does still highlight the violence such as the close ups of the gun and the fact that we see him getting shot.