Character representation

By Jake Kent, Job Cook, Reegan Goodwin

Teenagers and character representation

One of our characters is a typical teenager who is a thug. He smokes drugs, likes to bully people. By looking at the character he represents teenagers in the view of what other people view them as. The character has short hair, has a cool phone and represents the view of teenagers being thuggish. The character on the left who is a thug bullies the ginger character on the right. This is due to him being ginger. The teenagers wearing clothing such as hoodies and chinos relates to teenagers, as it is clothing worn by teenagers in today's society. We used this to our advantage for character representation as just by looking at the characters you could tell they are youths and thugs. The ginger characters representation was as a not as popular youth who didn’t have many friends as seen by his dress sense and how he acts.

The other teenagers were represented as the ‘teenage’ stereo type of them being irresponsible, who take drugs , use violence and carry out violence for fun , where thug like clothing with hoods to hide their identity, teenagers swear and use bad language, they also bully others for fun for absolutely no reason. This was shown through the character representation as the teenagers are typical thug like individuals as shown through out our film.

The teenagers were taking drugs as if it was an everyday thing, this character representation represents them as criminals and thug like, this was shown through out the film.

Race/colourCharacter representation of the characters within out film is shown also through colour as the white males are seen as the ones with power, the ginger kid who gets bullied is seen to be powerless although at the end he rises up with power and over comes the bullies, hence the title ‘rise of the ginger’. The black female is powerless also as she if friends with the ginger kid who gets bullied, this shows she hasn’t got many friends and isn't popular. The character representation of the ginger kid is that because he is ginger he gets bullied, this is a stereo type we used to our advantage for character representation.

Teenagers are seen to be irresponsible as shown through out our film where even the kid who gets bullied commits criminal acts and kills one of the bullies. This shows a lot through character representation as gingers aren't normally seen to have power or be in the more powerful position.