How does your media product represent particular social groups?

(representation)

Media representations are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups,

communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective.

• The old style buildings and rural setting suggest the representation of the country side.

• The quite setting and a strange lack of people suggest the slow easy going life of the area. This was meant to represent country life, however may suggest otherwise as there is usually a feeling of togetherness found in the regular country life which is not found in this film. This is done deliberately as it shows the abnormality of the event happening in this sort of area.

• This scene shows the slow pace of life within the area. There is no sense of urgency in the film which is supported with the slow pace editing , This all suggest the representation of the rural country side against the urgent fast paced city life.

• The film attempts to represent a country side lifestyle however the use of a Black character is used to suggest that the events taking place are not common everyday ones. It is stereotypical that not too many black people are found living in the Cotswold, so this character helps to convey the strangeness of the transpiring events