How our radio drama represents particular social groups?

Within our radio drama there is many social groups that are represented but the main ones would be the difference between men and women. Also groups that are expressed are young adults of which are most likely students.

The way women and men are represented.

The representation of both women and men is the most obvious group expressed within our radio drama. Roxy being female is expressed to be extremely weak and frightened where as Max being male is displayed as confident and dominant of which is very stereotypical. allow we found this within the character Max, Joe the other male within our piece is expressed as some what shy and caring in comparison. Belle being the other female character seems to be quite forceful and portrays a stronger female attitude toward the audience. Another way of which expresses that females are less confident and capable then men is e.g.

Max: I’ll walk you home now as it’s getting really dark

Roxy: ok thank

you, but only if your sure

Max: Yeah of course. I wouldn’t let you walk back alone

This part of our script shows the way our radio drama represents males as more powerful and protective.

Also within our radio drama the females use words such as 'babe' this shows the females are

more caring and charming towards one another.

The way social group students are expressed

Social groups can be defined by ethnicity,age,class, gender,occupation and many many more.
Collective identity can be seen as a common aspect in social groups in our case we choose the collective identity of students.The way our radio drama expresses students is by focusing on their attitudes towards relationships and how they spiral to cause problems within friendships. This being a extremely familiar day to day routine in students life styles. Our drama also represents how students want to be social, we did this by setting our scenes in e.g. 'Bar' being a common place to find students these days as a form of socialising, we represented that our characters were young by the use of sociolect chosen e.g. use of " Babe" being a common used word within a group of younger people including students.