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

Our media product represents a contradiction between the power, physical strength and status of the female characters. The interrogator played by Lucie is seen as a high status woman with power. Her ‘male-like’ costume and attitude shows that she is quite confident in herself. Lucie’s character breaks this stereotype of women being inferior to men, by being represented as bold, powerful woman. Lucie’s character also breaks the traditional policeman/interrogator stereotype. The Hollywood film industry is a very male dominated industry. Therefore in most films and TV programmes, the females are usually seen as victims with an inferior status. Lucie’s character clearly breaks this stereotype. Alcione’s character is also a powerful woman with a high-status job. She expresses her intelligence with a well-spoken manner and she knows how to be successful at her job.


The costumes used in our media product are based on other character's costumes in TV programmes like CSI:New York. The costumes are formal which are important in showing that the characters have status and power.


The female victim shows the stereotypical woman. Innocent, weak and powerless to the attacker. She doesn’t fight back against the attacker and is murdered. Her ‘child- like’ clothes show that she is immature and vulnerable. It is later on proved that she is vulnerable because she is attacked, but doesn’t try to fight back. Her weakness is what people may see as stereotypical in women.




The victim's costume is casual and a bit 'child- like'. The costume shows that she is innocent, crude and vulnerable.



The attacker is represented as the typical criminal, simply because he is male. He is portrayed as a dark, mysterious character. The victim is his ex-partner, currently in a new relationship. He is jealous and seeks revenge.

The image above shows the stereotypical male criminal/ murderer. The dark, mysterious man that always looks suspicious. We tried to make Lewis as mysterious as possible by selecting the right clothing that would suit this stereotype.