How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We represented the social groups of teenagers in our film opening. Both teenagers portrayed in our opening are juxtaposed. The male seems to lead a regular teenage lifestyle and to be quite sociable, which can be saw through the photographs placed in the diary, these photographs show the male victim with his friends. Whearas the female is clearly not a normal teenager and appears to the audience as isolated and hazardous, we know this as she lives in a abandoned mill and also stalks and tortures the male character . This also challenges regular conventions of gender in horror films as we have the male character as the weaker victim and the female character as the the dominant killer. In almost all thriller movies the female is the weaker character being pursued or hurt by a male character , eg "Halloween" , "Scream". The audience wouldn't expect a teenage girl to be capable of performing such horrific acts. Some members of the audience may not expect a petite female such as the chosen actress to be able to physically dominate the male in the way in which she does. This challenges the patriacal society view.

The female antagonist is represented in a dark and negative way to show she is an evil character. we never see her face to show she is a mysterious character. It also means the audience can't connect with her as they dont know who she is thus making them feel sorry for the male victim. We deliberatly chose for her to wear a long black coat to represent mystery and evil, this is similar to the slasher in "Scream" who wears a long dark costume. This is completly juxtaposed to male victim who wears a white t-shirt which represents good and purity as he has done nothing wrong and is innocent.