The document discusses how the film represents three different social groups - the Goth/emo, the popular jock, and the "it girl" - through common stereotypes. It describes portraying the Goth girl as moody with dark clothing and makeup, the jock as handsome and popular but cocky, and the "it girl" as attractive, girly, and confident. By using recognizable stereotypes for each group, the audience can easily identify them and make assumptions about their personalities.

1. Representing Social
Groups
{ Question 6 of Evaluation

2.  Various different social groups are shown
within my film opening, these are typical
stereotypes of which the audience are easily
able to recognise and interpret into the specific
categories intended by us.
Introduction

3.  The three different social groups I believe we
have successfully interpreted is: Gothic/emo,
typical popular high school jock and the ‘it’
girl. These all have different contrasting
stereotypes which helps the audience strongly
tell between these groups.

4.  I have taken into account the various typical
conventions shared between gothic characters
which sets them apart from other categories.
After some thorough research I noticed similar
patterns within chick flicks in representing Goths
and emos and these are what we have used in
order to represent them in this same way to
ensure the audience recognises the social group
intended.
The Goth Girl

5.  The classic stereotypes put into place and thought
by most around us believe that Goths are rather
moody, dark, mysterious, listen to heavy metal
genre of music, wear dark/black clothing and tend
to keep their distance from others and themselves
to themselves. We believe this is how we have
represented our gothic character within our film
opening and have done so to ensure that the
audience fully recognise which social group she is
from so therefore they are able to easily interpret
what that given character is like. As you will see in
our opening film piece, the character has darkly
coloured ‘scene’-like hair, dark lipstick and eye
make-up along with mainly black clothes and is
also seen to be give off quite a moody,
uncomfortable atmosphere to those watching her.

6.  By creating this character to be so recognisably
gothic by ensuring strong stereotypical
conventions have been used, the audience are
able to recognise that she has been portrayed to
be like the typical moody, mysterious Goth
helping to interpret what the characters initial
personality and self is like saving a great deal
of time working this out.
Our Goth Girl taken from a still of
our film opening

7.  This is a character quite often seen within most high
school chick flick movies and are commonly known
for their lack of common and general knowledge,
popularity with the hot, attractive girls around
school and are usually portrayed to be extremely
good looking and handsome. I believe that we have
represented this character of ours in the same
manner in order for the audience to just make
assumptions to what the character is like; good
looking, popular and someone who all the girls
want but also a little dumb and naive about his
game play.
The Jock

8.  The ‘jock’ is represented and included in
various chick flicks such as in the popular
movie ‘John Tucker Must Die’, he is portrayed
as extremely popular around the high school
especially with the girls, quite cocky and
because of this the girls within the movie
decide to get revenge upon him from being so
‘big headed’ and playing along girls (an idea
we have with our film narrative).

9.  I and my group have been successful in interpreting
these stereotypes into action within our piece to re-
create the typical social group character being ‘the
jock’. The character within our opening appears to
be very appealing to the eye as seen in the
photography both female characters possess but also
very cocky and naive because of it due to the fact we
see him texting both girls, arranging to go on a date
with both, both females having the same
photograph of him, that he is playing both of the
girls along thinking he can get away with it. We
have portrayed him as the stereotypical high school
jock effectively, popular with the girls, cocky and
good looking.
Image of ‘Josh’ the Jock
within our final piece

10.  These are seen in most if not all chick flicks set
in a high school, she is the girl that everybody
wants to be, pretty, popular and confident. The
‘it’ girl within a very famous and well-known
high school chick flick would be Regina
George. The female who is seen to be quite ‘up
herself’ and rather arrogant towards the rest of
the school students, especially the ‘unpopular’
social groups such as nerds and they also don’t
tend to mix with Goths; the contrasting
character we have chosen to compete with the
‘it’ girl.
The ‘it’ Girl

11.  We have created our ‘it’ girl character to be that
of attractive, very girly, popular, outgoing and
confident. This is due to those strong
stereotypes developed over the decades
through various media products. It helps the
audience immensely with knowing what the
character is like and also ensures they know
what social group she is in which is the ‘it’ girl
by recognising this from the character’s
appearance.
Our ‘it’ girl taken from
a still in our film
opening

12.  Overall I believe all social groups; Goth, ‘it’ girl
and jock have been represented in the correct
manner and have been represented in the
stereotypical way which was what we intended
to do.