Evaluation 2 - How our media product represents social groups

One of the social groups that our teen angst film represents is the more popular males in school, this is done through the main character being Aiden. He is represented as being popular mostly through the way that he is dressed, wearing fashionable clothes and seeming to care about his appearance, as well as what sort of hobbies and sports that he is into, being football. This can be compared to a character in the film  'The Edge of Seventeen' who is called Darian, He is the stereotypical athletic male character in this film. He is similar to Aiden through aspects such as the way they are both dressed with both of them wearing hoodies, dark blue jeans and a bag due to both films being mainly set in a school. They are also both into sports with Darian playing American Football due to that being the dominant sport in America and Aiden playing football for the same reason in England. The only major difference between the two characters is their ethnicity, Darian is Caucasian whereas Aiden is from Pakistani descent, this is also one of the only countertypes in our film. They are also roughly the same age being at the higher levels of education.

Another social group represented in our teen angst opening is the more unpopular females in school, this is shown through the other main character Kate, she is very similar to the main character of 'The Edge of Seventeen' Nadine. One of these many similarities is the way they look and dress, both of them have dark brown hair and are white and their clothing could be seen as slightly less fashionable compared to the popular characters in both movies. Another similarity that they share is that they are both very pessimistic about life and don't think they are very important. This is shown in our teen angst film by the narration by Kate when she is introducing herself. In 'The Edge of Seventeen' Nadine only has one friend, this is another similarity between the two characters.