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

Considering the difficult themes in our film, we weren't able to completely adhere to stereotypes and archetypes. Our main protagonists beings Jess and Alex, both belong to social groups of British uni students who are young adults.Jess belongs to the social group of an arts fan while Alex belongs to a gadgets interested group however Alex's technology interests are not displayed in the opening sequence.

Jess:

Jess is withdrawn and stays in bed

Holly mourns over her husband's death (PS I love you)

Alex:

Jeremy Irvine from Now is Good (2012)

Alex

  Gender Representation:

Jess is a metaphorical damsel in distress in the sense that she depends on her friends to help her get through the mourning of her boyfriend.

This clip from Now is Good (2012) portrays the aspect where the male protagonist is caring about the female protagonist. He tries to calm her down which is how Alex tries to look out for Jess in Pulled From the Rough.

Age Representation

Jess subverts her age stereotype as having unstable less serious relationships as she really cares about the boyfriend who died as their relationship was long term (two years). This is a positive representation as she is shown to be more mature.
Her character subverts the party animal age stereotype. This is a positive representation of 19 year olds as she is not being reckless and is responsible.

Class and Status

This fotobabble shows that she is in the university student class. Jess is interested in literature and she is organised. She also has stacks of books around the room which shows that she used to  predominantly spend money and time on the Arts.



The arts student stereotype is also challenged by Jess because she doesn't leave her room and she doesn't concentrate on studying. This is a negative representation of university students as she is distracted by the death of her boyfriend.

Alex is a lively science student hence he fits his enthusiastic stereotype and is ready to go through his day of hard work. This is shown as he also imposes this upon Jess who is the opposite of him. This is a positive representation of uni students as it depicts them being dutiful and happy.


The core audience will appreciate Jess's challenges of age stereotypes such as not being a party animal because they can question her quiet withdrawn attitude.They will enjoy the clash of the opposites as they will understand the Alex is only caring for Jess and they will hope that Jess's relationship with Alex will improve. They may relate to Jess's serious character as this is a more realistic representation of a female uni student.