Tuesday, 16 March 2010

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

Tangled Strings mainly represents people with some sort of disability (this could be mental or physical as the main character is not so far showing obviously if it is one, the other or both), which is not openly spoken of, but affects so many round the world, and their relatives. And as this film is taken from a real life story I have witnessed, it would seem more realistic than for someone who hasn’t experienced this in real life – so, I believe, lots of people would be interested to see or identify with Adam’s story.



As the sequences is taken from his point of view, as the main character, maybe adults would prefer to watch this film as it is serious and tells a dramatic story from the point of view in which Adam lives it.


Claire is represented in this sequence of the film as the jewel of his life, and even though we are seeing his life story from his point of view, she is the main focus of it since they were kids, until they are grown up – this shows the viewer his particular focuses in life and may identify with the main character as it is very likely that most grown ups watching this film may have found love in their lives and therefore identify with the characters feelings throughout it.


In this sequence of Tangled Strings, there are only white people represented as there are only two people so far and it is set in England. But if I was to carry on the film I would make sure I represented more ethnic groups as important characters because this would draw in a bigger audience as even more people would identify with the situation the main character is in.

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