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

This shows the typical stereotype of youth of which we assigned to our actors.

In our movie we wanted to present the male character as happen two sides to him.

 

We wanted the stereotypical (for his clothing, slang and actions) side to him, being the 'street/gangs' side. This was represented by:

• His clothing: He wore tracksuit, swinging headphones and a chain to represent his affliction to the gang/street- based side of youth culture. 
• His slang in his dialogue parts also demonstrated his similarities to characters in other youth culture films such as Adulthood.

We did however add a larger twist, much different from either Kidulthood or Adulthood and that's our main characters secret hobby, music. In adulthood the main character is shown to have a loving side so we went one step further.

 

Similar to Adulthood, our main character wants to get away from the street life that he is currently a part of, we made this apparent in a number of ways

The bar between the two supposed friends shows separation, Ali on the side close to the school shows him wanting to break away, get an education and get his life on the right track however with the other character who is seated on the steps looking out, away from the school, you get a sense of rebellion of which our main character Ali no longer wants a part of.