Evaluation task #2: In What Ways Does our Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

We have two major characters in our sequence, namely: a rich businessman and girl, who is actually his daughter. When representing any type of a person (class, education etc.) you're trying to enrich you character with a set of universal stereotypical features that will help the audience to immediately identify the type of personality you intended to show. The clarity is the major component since that gives an audience an understanding of what you are trying to demonstrate and leads to a "preferred reading".

Businessman

Arguably, the businessman in our movie is a member of the upper class. He can find profit in everything he sees. He is also a white man (this is not arguably). There are several features that may give a hint to the audience about the social group (e.g. white skin) where he belongs. 

The first thing is his clothes...

He wears a very nice, neat suit, white shirt and a beautiful tie, incomparable shoes. Well, not everyone can afford to buy such a suit... so we can make an assumption that he is quite a rich person or, at least, economically independent. But his fantastic watch!.. Yes, this explicitly illustrates his social class... upper class. The way he behaves - calm and confident, although he probably doesn't feel comfortable demolishing churches. Also a very expensive pen he uses to sign the papers gives us an idea of how affluent he is (although you won't see much of it in the sequence, you should know that the pen is fabulous).

The second thing is his house and facilities...

The bathroom where he finds himself is mind-boggling. All the surfaces shine and so we can see his reflection in each shot. He has special facilities such as a hand-dryer, which you are very unlikely to meet in the vast majority of the houses. 
The corridor is huge and may remind of some political building (or any kind of a large building). You may also notice a blue carpet on the floor, the symbol of comfort and somewhat affluence.

Another detail which is worth mentioning is the door which we may see at the end of the sequence. This is not simply a door - this is a massive door, carved door, beautiful door.
All in all, we have a very wealthy person whose primary purpose is to make profit out of everything he sees.

Girl
Since the girl is presumably a daughter of the main hero, she must be from the same class. Her clothes doesn't refer to her belonging though. I would say, it's almost impossible to identify who she is in terms of class, education etc. However, this may be a result of religiousness. To my mind (maybe I'm mistaken), there are not so many wealthy and at the same time religious people, especially, if they are economists or children of economists. So here we have an unusual mixture which reflects in girl's appearance.



Her religiousness was shown through a Bible in her hand and a small necklace with cross hanging on her neck. On the other hand, she wears "Nike" boots which doesn't match with bible at all. Probably, she is not sure what she is yet. Perhaps, this mismatch is possible to explain by her age, meaning she is not completely formed yet. And instead of religion there could have been any subculture as well as religion itself. So we tried to present our character as a typical teenager who desperately believes in something and even kills herself because of her beliefs.