2 REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL GROUPS

 Bikers boys- according to Dick Hebdige, certain groups form sub cultures with specific identities that they signal through clothing and music codes. Here, the biker boys wear leathers, boots and tattoos. They also signal membership of their musical affiliations through references to heavy metal music: Ozzy Osbourne.

We decided to compare Dani (the main character) from our opening, Zest, to Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones' Diary. Both films have a comedy essence to them. Bridget Jones is a comedy romance and Zest is a comedy. There are aspects of resemblance which occur in both. Bridget wears: A sturdy jackets, with a smart casual shirt underneath to create a laid back edgy look. Her hair is messy and wavy, shows she has a genuine feel to her. It helps the audiences identify the emotions of the characters easily. Her face expression is stern looking, as if she is very competent, this is similar to Dani who plays our Aussie gap year student, who comes from a sturdy upbringing and has worked in a restaurant all her life, so she knows how to handle touch situations. As well as this, our film opening includes a voiceover that is in the format of a diary blog, as if she is writing to her father, who is back home in Australia. This is also similar to Bridget Jones' Diary, as that film is based on the main character writing a personal diary about her manic life.

Stereotype: Celebrity chef (left Heston Blumenthal) cutting edge molecular gastronomy, obsessed with inventing new recipes with scientific approach. High profile TV appearances. Our chef (right) is modelled on this stereotype.

We have chosen a comic stereotype relating to body image here: fat people are often stereotyped in a negative way as figures of fun; Dawn French, for example, is famous for drawing attention to her large appetite in comedy sitcoms such as The Vicar Of Dibley. 

Magazines and online news sites are crammed full of representations of celebrities: Their clothes, their escapades, their spending habits, their love lives and their holidays seem to have an inexhaustible fascination for readers. We depict celebrity stereotypes as being empty headed and obsessed with their body image.

This social stereotype is the posh social climber, like Penelope Keith in The Good Life.

We introduced them with wine being swirled in front of them as they are the kind of people who think of themselves as wine connoisseurs. This kind of customer likes to bandy about famous restaurants and hotels that they have dined in to show off. They are also the kind of people who follow trends in the press about the latest diet fads. Theyre likely to shop at waitrose and want to know all their food is ethically sourced and of the finest qualities. The recent horse meat scandal is likely to have appalled them and made them suspious of whatever they put into their mouths. At restaurants they are likely to talk very loudly and ghautily in an RP accent like Lead Better in The Good Life.