Task 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?

When trying to represent particular social groups within our sequence, we had to look at the two pivitol characters in our sequence.

Firstly the young girl is shown to be a middle class town girl during the Second World War. This is shown through her costume. Firstly, the long white nightgown would not be worn in modern day, therefore it is dated showing the audience that she lived in the 1940's. As the nightgown in long, white and clean, we are able to see that our young girl is middle class. Her hair is neatly plaited and she has a blanket and a bed to sleep on.

Another fact that makes our girl middle class is the fact that she is writing, this shows that she is educated unlike many of the children during that era. She must also be rather wealthy as she has her own bomb shelter rather than a public one, in the shelter is a type writer and a large desk, and radio, these were expensive items which show that she is not working class.

The toys and sweets she has with her in her shelter show that she is wealthy enough to have many toys to play with unlike those in working class who would normally share. The fact that she is an only child also helps us identify that she is middle class as her family did not need to produce workers and have children as an economic asset.

The shot of a man (whom we presume to be her father) coming through the door to the shelter makes our little girl scared. This generates the idea that middle class families are not as secure as they seem. They all have their secrets. The father is seen as middle class as his shadow shows that he is smartly dressed with a hat on.

We wanted our little girl to be like the charater of Lucy Pensive in 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'. Lucy would be of around the same age and class as our girl. The movie was also set in world war two so Lucy seemed like a good inspiration.

Our second character was the archeologist. Although we cannot tell much about him we are able to see that he is educated, as he has a job. His clothes suggest that he is from the modern day and that he is middle class. His clothes are clean and ironed, they are smart casual suggesting that his job does not pay enough to be contantly smart but does allow him to buy good clothes.

He is wearing a hoodie which suggests his youth as though he has just started his career, also his coat suggests that he is smart. He is holding a torch which tells us that as it is very powerful he must be in modern day.


He seems to be looking for something which tells the audience that he is on a job and is not just there our of interest but needs to find something. When he reads some of the diary we see that he is educated as he can read.


We based this character slightly on Indiana Jones as he seems to be looking for something. But also on a character from Jurassic Park. These seemed to have the same class and job as our charater, and allowed us to gain some information as to what this character would be like.