Question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
This question is asking me how the characters in my opening sequence represent any particular social groups such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and age. I could comment on how our film represents social groups through a mock interview with the main actress. As she is who we are trying to represent, so she would be best to answer the question in an interview style.


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