Evaluation- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Gender and age is represented in our production. Our protagonist “Leo” represents a teenage girl and is presented as rebellious and excluded from her family.  The use of her casual clothes and the colour black, connotes this rebellious feel which conforms to stereotypes of a teenager being a ran-away and unable to cope with life’s situations. The subtitles used to convey her emotions also reinforce this. Leo also appears isolated or lost in the busy crowd on London as long shots are used depicting Leo as just another individual in a busy world. The use of a tracking shot further underpins this and it appears to the audience like she is on a journey but because she is out in the open it is almost depicting a loss of innocence as she faces the “real” world (defending for herself). Being a girl it is can be said that Leo deviates from stereotypical representations because of this rebellious side presented and her strength in trying to find her family to the extent of running away from her controlling relatives.