Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Task 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?

The two social groups that we have chosen to represent in our media product are; teenagers and our driver who is suppossed to symbolise the underclass immigrant community. We have focused on using the idealogy that in society you do come across the unreliable taxi drivers who sterotypically do seem to be from a foriegn community. Then you also do have the sterotypical naive teenagers who will get into any taxi without thinking twice.
In terms of choosing our actors we have tried to portray these two sterotypical social groups through their appearance and their actions within the title sequence.
This is an example of how we were trying to portray our actor 'The Driver' as a suspicious looking charactor which in reality are easy to find within the taxi driver community.
In the case of our victim we tried to portray her as being naive as most sterotypical teenage girls are.














Police charge Vincent Tabak with Jo Yeates murder  

Jo Yeates's body was found on Christmas Day A man has been charged with murdering landscape architect Jo Yeates.

Avon and Somerset Police said Dutch national Vincent Tabak, 32, who was arrested on Thursday, will appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Miss Yeates, 25, was found dead on Christmas Day, eight days after going missing from her home in the Clifton area of Bristol.

Her body was found next to a country road in Failand, three miles from where she lived.

A post-mortem examination revealed she had been strangled.

Miss Yeates, who was originally from Ampfield in Hampshire, was reported missing by her 27-year-old boyfriend Greg Reardon on 19 December when he returned to their home after a weekend away visiting family in Sheffield.

She disappeared on 17 December after going for Christmas drinks with colleagues at her architectural firm.

Mr Tabak, an engineer, lived next door to Miss Yeates on Canynge Road.

Earlier this week a reconstruction for the BBC's Crimewatch programme was filmed, tracing Miss Yeates's last steps.

There have also been a number of public appeals from her family.



When we were coming up for ideas for our thriller we thought that searching news reports would be a good idea. This is because we thought basing our thriller on an event that has happened in reality would incorporate a larger sense of fear to the audience, knowing that what we are showing them could easily happen to anyone.

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