Evaluation, Task 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film contains teenagers; the three members of cast are aged 17-19. The age of the members of the film obviously represent teenagers. The issues raised in our plot of infidelity, cheating and seeking revenge are usually related to an adult audience who have experienced an unfaithful relationship. However it represents the fact that teenagers tend to grow up too fast. Or that teenagers have to deal with the same things adults do but it is just not seen as important because they are young.

We are introduced with a female character who is firstly applying lipstick in the mirror, then places a weapon in her bag. The popular horrors produced by ‘real’ media institutions like ‘scream’ and ‘I know what you did last summer’ usually represent teenage girls to be damsels in distress, vulnerable and helpless. We wanted to oppose this convention by making our female the lead, antagonist, strong-willed and able to defend herself.

 If you look at the picture of one of the females in scream, you can see the panic and a distressed look on her face. Whereas compared with our female character she remains composed, emotionless and calm. Scream was released in 1996 and our film obviously 2011, it can represent the rise of feminism in society and that teenage girls are just as capable of holding a antagonist lead in a horror film and play a convincing role which will scare both male and female audiences.