All media productions represents different representations for each social groups. Representations are created from the gender, age, sexuality, regional identity, ability/disability, class &status and ethnicity of a person. Representations also lead to sterotypes of a person. Sterotypes are created from people within the society.
For example:
A middle aged white man in a suit would be seen as a rich business man.
A young sexy, dumb, blonde female would be considered as a secretary.
In our film openings the social groups it represented was single mothers as our film opening portrayed a single mother dealing with depression from the loss of her daughter. This is shown through our choice of mise en scene of the cigarette and wine. We portrayed single mothers in a good way as we showed single mothers in a good way as we showed single mothers being strong and coping with life changing experiences which many single parents face the loss of their child and dealing with the pain and the pressure alone. However we also portrayed single mothers in a negative way with the use of smoking and drinking alcohol which suggested a sense of irresponsibility and lack of good mother hood.
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