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

My film is about a young girl who is possessed by the devil, and is revealing important information to the government in code form. All four of these films represent mental health issues in some way.
Girl Interrupted is about Susanna Kaysen, 18 years old who "voluntarily" checks herself into the fictitious Claymoore Hospital after an overdose of aspirin and her stay extends for over a year.
The Exorcist is about a teenager who is possessed by a mysterious entity, and her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

The Sixth Sense is about a boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
The Ring is about a young journalist who must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
My film represents a young girl with mental health issues, and I think The Exorcist and The Sixth Sense are the two films that are closest in representation to my film, as they both represent young people with mental health issues and possession by the devil. The girl in our film, is represented in a strange manner, and does not talk at all. Where as the boy in The Sixth Sense does talk and is seeking help for himself, and the girl in The Exorcist has no real control over herself, and her mum is speaking for her.

Our film represents police men, as do Bad Boys and Lethal Weapon, but they are represented in different ways. In Bad Boys, Two hip detectives protect a murder witness while investigating a case of stolen heroin, and in Lethal Weapon a veteran cop, Murtough, is partnered with a young homicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common, hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one and other to stop a gang of drug smugglers.
The difference with these two films and my film is that the Police man in our film is interrogating a young girl, where as in these two films, the police men are having to rescue someone or track someone down, and are out on the job. Where as in our film, all he is doing is sitting in a room with a young girl watching her draw a pentagram over and over again. The Police Man in our film is not the same as he has not got a gun on him, and has not got his life in danger. These films represent their policemen as glamorous, where as we wanted to represent them in a more traditional way like in The Bill.

The Bill is a long running British police procedural television series, unusual among police dramas in that its focus is on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work. The Police officers are represented as normal day police men. They go into work, kitted up in their uniform, they go out on call, arrest people, everything that an every day police man does. Where as we have represented our Police Man more of a casual, interrogating Police Man, where he does not go out on jobs, but works from the offices, analysing cases, interviewing people, and trying to solve cases without being on the case. We choose to use a middle age white man, as it is the typical stereotype of a policeman in television programmes like The Bill

‘It is estimated that up to one in five children suffer from a mental illness. But funding for children's services makes up only a fraction of the mental health budget. BBC News Online looks at the politics and practice of children's mental health. ‘BBC NEWS
In the news, it is not spoken about of specific children with specific mental health issues, more just information and help on all the various mental health issues that people can get and how you can give help.

Cornell University on alert after suspected suicides
A third-year student died after falling from a footbridge on Friday
Cornell University staff are monitoring bridges over river gorges on the campus and checking on students after three fell to their deaths in the past month.
The head of the US college also took out an ad in the campus paper urging students: "If you learn anything at Cornell, please learn to ask for help."
The first of the deaths has been ruled a suicide. The others, which happened last week, are being investigated.
Three other students at Cornell have killed themselves this academic year.
But university officials insist its suicide rate is in line with the national average for its student population of 20,000 - about two per year.
'Suicide school'
Cornell's Ithaca campus sits on a hilltop overlooking Cayuga Lake, the longest of the Finger Lakes of central New York State.
It's a kind of a bewilderment and a determination to make sure we've done everything we can to keep it from happening again
Claudia WheatleyCornell University spokeswoman
Two sides of the campus are bound by gorges, more than 30m (100ft) deep in some places, which students must cross to enter the main town.
On Thursday, the body of a second-year engineering student was recovered from a gorge through which Fall Creek flows, 20m (70ft) below Thurston Avenue Bridge. The body of a first-year was found nearby on 17 February.
Then on Friday, a third-year engineer died after he fell from a footbridge a short distance downstream, officials said. Rescue workers have yet to recover the body.
The Ithaca Police Department is investigating both of last week's deaths, but the university is responding as if they were suicides.
The Thurston Avenue Bridge passes 20m above Falls Creek
In addition to several messages issued by the university president offering help this week, staff members have been sent to the six bridges on campus and have been knocking on the doors of every student living in university accommodation.
Cornell administrators have also been "very intensively reassessing" existing programmes to prevent suicides.
"It's a kind of a bewilderment and a determination to make sure we've done everything we can to keep it from happening again," university spokeswoman Claudia Wheatley told the Associated Press.
But despite the recent deaths, Cornell's director of mental health initiatives said it was unfairly perceived as a "suicide school".
"When a death occurs at Cornell in one of our gorges, it's a very public experience," Dr Timothy Marchell said.
Between 2000 and 2005, there were 10 confirmed suicides, and from 2006 to the beginning of this academic year, there were none.