Foundation Portfolio evaluation: Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our media product, vikkie plays a female protaganist who aims to achieve her dreams of becoming a famous and successful dancer who is willing to do anything and everything in order to reach her dreams and become a success.

"Nora clark" from step up (2006) is a female protaganist who is a upperclass student at a prestigious dance school who teaches ballet and wants to become a famous ballet dancer and works hard to achieve her dreams.

There are many similarities between the 2 characters:

Firstly both are driven by the goal of becoming a successful dancer, and both work hard to achieve their dreams.

Secondly they both wear similar clothes (which suit the styles of dance) which can suggest that maybe both the characters have a similar taste in clothes/dance style.

Both characters are also major characters in both their films as they both have a leading role as the main protaganists.

However there are also many differences between both the characters:

Firstly vikkie's character is from a lower class background, this would therefore suggest her character is alot more driven to succeed as she has nothing else in her life that she can rely on , therefore this could be her only shot to success.

Secondly , while the costumes for both characters are similar, they are also different, as vikkies character dances in streetdance style whereas Nora clark performs ballet.

Thirdly , Nora is alot more passive compared to vikkies character, as in "live2dance" the characters are constantly bickering with eachother and vikkies is the more dominant one where as nora seems to dislike arguing with channing tatums character.

Lastly nora clark is also the second main character whereas vikkie is the primary character in live2dance.