What social groups and how it represents it
We tried to represent the social groups in our film sensitively. We did a lot of research into all of the social groups we are representing, so we could portray them authentically. We are representing a 14 year old teenager girl who suffers from depression and is also facing many other problems in her life such as an eating disorder, domestic violence and self harm. Although I'm 3 years older than that of a 14 year old, I look young for my age, so this along with wearing suitable clothes a little make up helped me play this age authentically. Furthermore I have done lots of acting in the past both stage and film, take theatre studies for a-level and I'm represented by an acting agency, so this experience also allowed me to play Sophie effectively as I knew how I could become Sophie and feel the emotions she would be dealing with. Sophie is classed as a vulnerable person in society, not only being a teenager and female, she is suffering from a mental illness and would require help and therapy to battle against her illness.
In our film, I think we’ve stereotypically portrayed woman as being the weak and emotional ones. Whilst the male is portrayed as aggressive and intimidating. Women usually are the victims in domestic violence issues, and the men tend to be the ones to intimidate them.
The Father is in a shirt and smart black trouser, suggesting he is the breadwinner of the family, and likes to be in control. The mother is dressed in casual clothes suggesting she hasn’t been out anywhere in the day, she is a housewife. Both of the parents are middle aged. Sophie wears long sleeve tops/jumpers to hide the fact that she self-harms. She doesn’t try hard with her appearance.
All 3 characters are caucasian, so although this only represents one ethnic groups, it doesn't mean different ethnicities can't face the same issues that are shown in our film.
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