How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As our radio drama is about a bunch of people going to university, immediately it represents the whole of the teenage grouping, as even if they are not going to university, they have still had to decide that they would not like to go. The idea of teenage pregnancy also targets younger girls between the ages of 12+, because our characters were just leaving after their a levels, they had to talk as though educated, but also not too posh as we wanted our radio drama to try and appeal to all teenage girls aswell as teenage boys in the same situation. At the same time we had to approach the issues raised with some kind of sympathy as many people may be going through the same difficult points in their life at the moment.

Not only did we try and target the younger generation, we also introduced the character Janice who is Elisa's mother. As you only see a snippet of this character we tried to cram her personality into the scene, we tried to represent her as a supportive, caring and excitable mother, but also quite motherly at the same time, i feel we were successful in doing this and because of this we can add mother's / woman guardians to the social groups we have represented.

Another two characters we have introduced into our drama would include Ethan, who is Elisa's ever caring and long term boyfriend, and also Ben, who is Ethan's best friend. From the previous diagrams in my blog post "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?" you will be able to see the type of person that Ethan is, and for Ben, he is the respectful, good bestfriend type of person. In this way we can represent a broader set of the male teenage scenario, as many males can relate to having a good bond with another male.