How does our media product represent particular social groups?

For our opening sequence, ' Interline Industries', there are many representations portrayed through various examples of media language, all of which I will be discussing in this summary.

In our opening, certain social groups are represented in different ways, being both stereotypical and anti-stereotypical. For example, drug dealers are represented as being the victims whereas they are stereotypically the people who pray on victims. You can see this throughout the extract when the drug dealer is being chased by 2 antagonists leaving the audience thinking that the drug dealer is vulnerable. However, this also reinforced the common ideology of the drug industry being dangerous as chase scene becomes intense. Also, drug lords are also represented as professional throughout the opening scene through the use of props. An example of props being used to create the representation of drug lords being professional were the use of an office. The creates this representation as offices connote professionalism and business' where as, in this case, is being used to run a drug lord.

Also in the opening scene, you can see the drug dealer wearing a hood, connoting that he has something to hide as it is covering the majority of his face. This represents men as being mysterious as he is covering the majority of his face which could be a metaphor for him having something to hide. However, this agrees with the stereotype of men in the media as they  are regularly represented as hiding something and being mysterious. This representation is also similar to the one used in 'Limitless' when there is confusion and curiosity for how the main protagonist is so smart and what is his story. This method and representation intrigues the audience to wanting them to find out more about the characters past.

Only men are seen in the opening sequence throughout. This creates the representation that men are constantly in power as men are seen as being the powerful in todays media. However, this does not reinforces todays ideology but it does in fact reinforced the ideology from 20 years ago. Also, the representation of men being powerful is also reinforced by the use of costume where the audience can see Mr. Faulkner wearing a suit, connoting power and authority, which agrees with the stereotype. This is also represented through there being no female in the extract, portraying men as being more dominant than females - a common stereotype in todays society.

To conclude, there are various use of both stereotypes and anti-stereotypes throughout the opening sequence allowing the audience to be intrigued with the unexpected representations whilst keeping it realistic with common representations uses throughout todays media.