2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product portraits young adults , but within this bracket of young adults we wanted to portrait the thug/"hoodrat" played by Mai who is an external actor and other hand we also wanted to capitulate a character who would contradict Mai's characteristics of a thug by having a poised and thoughtful boy who the girl would fall in love with. This boy was played by Jacob Collins-Brown.

This is the 'thug' we tried to replicate through the characterisation of 'mai'. The composition of shots gathered, which included 'Mai Shetima', had an essences of realism and "Retribution" through his facial manor-ism.

This shot instigates an essence of juxtaposition as 'yacob', who is seeking comfort, walks away from his faults and in hope of finding compassion in the future, where as in contrast, 'Mai' is closing down upon "yacob", for all he has done behind his

back, in search of "Retribution".

This mid-shot, to your right, depicts the certain swgger to which 'mai' has to life, it reveals his arrogance and immorality.

In contrast we have 'yacob' who contradicts the stereotype of young black males and this is partly demonstrated through his poise and calmness when it comes to challenging situations. We were inspired to base 'yacob's character on 'Carlton Banks' who was a character in 90's sitcom 'The fresh prince of Bel-air'. However the storyline consequently meant that 'yacob' would have to be stainer and some how corrosive in the essence of the word doe to his situation during the film.

The reasoning behind all of this is because we wanted to depict the the stereotypical black thug who only causes trouble and brings grief to his girlfriend, but to contradict this , We have another black male who is sophisticated and puts others before himself therefore is credited with the love of his best friends girl friend.