Question 2 - how does your media product reprent particular social groups

Each of my characters represent different kinds of people. Beginning with the character male character who is not named in the opening scene, he is a mysterious character whom no one knows anything about the age of the man and the way he is dressed and p-resents himself with broad shoulders walking tall places him as an important person who can come across as intimidating and scary. Small things such as the way he walks and his facial expressions help portray this look and feel to the character, the3 way he doesn’t speak means he is being purely judged by the way he looks.

Secondly there is Jess who is the typical blonde stereotype who come across as rather ditsy a in her own world. In most of the horrors I watched such as cabin in the woods there is one of these stereotyped blondes so I went along with the same idea, this may help set the feel of the genre. Although this is the character I directed to go and look around for ‘something to eat’ so this is kind of going against her stereotype of a scared fragile little blonde girl but straight away as she sees the figure at the door her scream and running fits her usual  stereo type falls back into place.

Next there is Katie who comes across as confident teenage girl. She is the ‘cocky’ character who comes across as not being scared, usually you would find another character like this in a horror/thriller who ends up becoming the target just like in the film scary movie which is a mick take of the film scream. This brings an element of comedy into my film which would be uncovered as the film carries on.

The final character Lauren is a worried and panicked teenage girl. She is the opposite to the character Katie and is the one who panics the most. These characters are represented like many teenagers in society today, you usually come across a couple of friends that completely contradict one another in their appearance and behaviours. This gives the film more of a chic flick feel that changes the genre slightly having these characters may lead to a rider range of people as a target audience.