Evaluation Post 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As a group we focused on age and gender

The age range we decided to focus on was 16-24 year olds. We used casting choices, camera and mise-en-scene to help create representations which would appeal to young adults. 

Horror movies give a thrill and excite the young audiences much easier than older ones. The young audiences are also less susceptible to being put off the film by violence or unnatural images which may make older audience feel negative towards the film.

After researching how the different genders were portrayed in successful films, it was clear that the male gender was strongly represented, as shown below.

In terms of wider context, our film centres around a female. because of this we looked at the stereotypes of females and we decided to create a character who directly challenges this. Below is a presentation about female representation, it will be going over stereotypes and how our character challenges them.