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

I think my media project breaks through certain stereotypical barriers of socail groups and also represents socail groups at the same time. Usually in a film of our kind you would see Sam (the hero) ,who is ethnic, actually be someone that is caucasian like Bruce Willis and therefore breaks through that stereotypical barrier because the ethnic person is more likely to be the villain like Michael Clarke Duncan in Spiderman. This doesnt particularly represent any specific social group but it allows an ethnic person to take the lead role in a film which isnt often seen unless it is an ethnic film. One social group it represents is that the "white man" is always the man in charge or the "hard man" like John Forgeham in Mean Machine, this is represented by Luke Power playing a drug lord who is at the head of the illegal activities. This is stereotypical because we are used to seeing the "white man" in charge and the ethnic minorities doing on his hard labour and this is the case in our project. My role in the project is extremely stereotypical because I am black and a henchman; it would be seen as typical because many young black youths are linked with crime, this represents the social group that black males are involved in crime which isn't always the case.