2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Protagonists Abby & Brendan (from Brick)
Our protagonist is Abby, a normal 17-year-old girl who lives a socially-deprived life. She only has one friend and yet they're not even that close. She represents the teenage, high-school-going social group. Abby is an alone protagonist, as the storyline is based around her and can only be fixed, resolved or reach an ending by her efforts only; but it is not conventional of (drama) thriller films to have their protagonist as teenagers so it was hard to find influences, but there are a few such as: Donnie Darko (2001), Brick (2005), Swinfan (2002), and The Butterfly Effect (2004).
Abby represents the teenage social group by carrying a backpack which is filled with books and carrying an art A3 folder in which are her art things; these are all typical of teenagers who attend school, but specially studious students such as her, who does not have much of a social life and only studies. These attributes are stereotypical of studious and smart teenagers like geeks, but we made this character to be this way as she is alone and doesn't have any friends, so we needed an activity that makes stay at home all the time.
She is similar to a protagonist like Brendan from Brick, as she only really has one friend and goes about solving the dilemmas of her life by herself; Brendan does this also as he discovers the mystery about his girlfriend's death by himself, with a little help from one friend, similarly to Abby. However, Abby wears bright clothes as she is different and sticks out from everyone else, unlike Brendan who wears darker, dull tones so he goes unnoticed in his high school.
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