Evaluation 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our chosen social group we wanted to reach out for was women as we wanted to portray women as equally able to do the job as men. Our team consisted of 3 women and 1 male, showing the contrast in the genders and how they were doing the same task. Women may look up to this challenging stereotype positively, as it symbolises that women are equal to the masculine role. The way we presented our team was that of strong, independent people who are equal in society. The use of mise-en-scene was clever here as we gave the female characters guns as well as the male character to show equality. Films that challenge the "girl power" convention, even if they don't fit into the crime genre, are: "St. Trinians," "Charlie's Angels" and "Battleship".