Evaluation Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As a group, we decided to focus on representing the age and gender of a male teenage protagonist, who wanted to come across both mysterious and relatable in order for the audience to feel interested and empathetical towards the character, so as to make sure that he played the side of the good in Levi Strauss' theory of binary opposites that contrasted to the nature of the young conspiracy organisation, who seemed aggressive, tactical and sinister. The hacker seemed reasonably normal and kind hearted on the phone to his mate, who he was delivering the file with use of code words to show the importance of what he was saying in a relatable North London accent to show that he seemed like a standard North London teenager, who was just skilled in the work he was involved in. The fact the character was a hacker and seemed to be very independent, contrasted to the stereotype of a dumb teenager, who when push comes to shove, is unable to stand on his own two feet. We chose to represent young males as a social group, for our group consistent of male teenagers, so it seemed easiest to relate to, the fact that he is a hacker does make the character himself more unconventional as the protagonist of the film.