How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Otaku/Wanabee

The wanabee in a teen film is the person, through all attempts tries to imitate the persona and traits of a type of people or person.

Coco, is an otaku, someone who is obsessed with japanese animation and culture. So in every attempt she tries to imitate japanese culture, through words and fashion. usually

through the word 'BAKA' meaning 'Idiot'

A character who is similar to coco is a character from "Not Another Teen Movie" called Bruce. In the film his stereotype is the asian wanabee, and he attempts asian characteristics, through use of language and clothes.

Tosin

Geek
Cynthia is the geek character in Translation Check. She's accident prone and isn't as smart as people would believe she is. We used typical conventions of a geek to create cynthia such as having her reading a book, wearing glasses, tucking her t-shirt in and having long white socks.

Generally speaking, geeks are seen to have a "nose to book" attitude to life (as media presents this social class)

They are also seen as the primary prey to bullies alike as they either have little or no friends and geeks also tend to give priorities to their academic career.

Their costume generally consists of:

Large glasses (sometimes taped togetherPlaid shirts (usually tucked in)
Pockets filled with pens (sometimes with pocket

protectors)

Suspenders
Long white socks

This character is from the film Napoleon Dynamite, (has the same name as the film) he is seen as socially awkward throughout the film, similar to Cynthia.

We can also see that this characters' attire fits the stereotypical definition of a geek a geek as he is wearing large glasses and a white shirt.

Stella

Loner

Here is a picture of Nicolla, which captures a midshot, which shows alot of emotion in her facial expression. It shows a reprenstation of a lonely person, who is expressive when showing her emotions to other people. A character that reinforces this representation, is Bella in Twilight, who also plays a loner character.

Bella (Twilight) falls in love with a boy called Edward. Later in the story she becomes a vampire. Likewise in our teen opening Nicolla is a loner character, but Bella's character also challenges the representation of being lonely, because she falls in love with someone, and at that point shes no longer a loner character.

Priscilla

Bully
This is Tuesday, the bully in our film. She is also a troublemaker, in fact causing trouble is a hobby of hers. Tuesday knows everything about everyone, which she uses to her full advantage with blackmailing to get people to do what she wants.

The bully often the one person everybody knows for the wrong reasons. Bullies inflict both emotional and sometimes physical pain on the weak and emotionally unstable. Most of the time they pick on the weaker because it makes them feel stronger and in control which is something they usually haven't had in their own lives.

John Bender from the Breakfast Club is a prime example of a typical bully character with the additional characteristics of a rebel and troublemaker all wrapped into one. Bender fulfills the steriotypical conventions of a bully such as looking down to authority, abiding by his own rules, pushing other people into doing things they don't want to do. Bender got into Saturday detention because of his troublemaking antics; meaning pulling a false fire alarm.
Lorna