‘How does your product represent particular social

groups?’

By Conor Drake

Our lead character in the opening is a young, black female.

We used a number of different methods to represent this social group in our opening.

We use the setting of a coffee bar in one of the summer flashbacks. This helps to represent the fact that our characters are young, by placing them in a trendy and modern environment.

We used the issue of domestic violence to represent some of the issues that might arise amongst the relationships within the youth cultures. Here the camera is used in a point of view shot

to help represent thefeelings of a youngwoman in that situation.

In the soundtrack we included a lot of heavily electric guitar music to give a feel for the kinds of subcultures that these characters may be in, as well as to serve as a synchronous effect to the action and drama.

And finally, the fast-pace and experimental editing style is used to connote the hectic and sometimes dangerous lifestyle of many youths, and the experimental effects used such as this one reflect the experimentation that teenagers and young adults inevitably go through.