Zaynah Syed-Thriller Evaluation 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product develops the idea of bullying and the kind of negative effect it can have upon its victims. The social groups used in our media product are 'bullies' and 'nerds' or 'geeks'. a similar example to our media product is the 'Inbetweeners' which is about four teenagers who are social outcasts and are also friends with eachother. This programme tackles bullying with the use of comedy although it is such a widely attracted issue, regardless of what genre used to portray the issue it has gained awareness successfully.

Our media product is represened in many ways. Our target audience can easily familiarise with our media product because of the stereotypes we have used. What we found in our audience research was that the majority of our audience consist of 13-19 years old who prefer watching thrillers which involves the concept of teenagers. A few examples where we witness events like paper being thrown at the outcasts or one of the outcasts are locked in the toilet, these are wildly recognised events which commonly occur in minor bullying incidents. Many teenagers can relate to these events as they have probably been a victim, the perpetrator or witnessed some sort of bullying in their lives.