How does your media product represent particular social groups?
When researching teen horrors a majority of mainstream horrors focused on typical teenagers, teenagers that live mundane lives and relate to most British teens. We decided to follow this tradition because we felt that if the audience could relate to the victim, it would have a bigger impact on them, resulting in the production being more scary and entertaining.
We related to the audience by following the character, Marie, while she was getting ready for a party and doing typical routine things. These appeal to all classes of people who often attend social events, which is why our production is able to represent any class of people, making it relatable when the victim is killed.
From my research I learnt that most women are represented as weak and vulnerable, such as Tina Gray (Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984) who is stalked and toyed with by Freddy Krueger at the beginning of the film:
We decided to follow this tradition by using a female character at the start and using a tilt shot to emphasize the danger she was in, this then led to her death. These representations wasn’t used to mock women and call them weak but to show how vulnerable any person from a social group could be on their own, thus making it relative and more scary.
In conclusion I feel that our media production represents social groups in a negative way, in which it shows them as vulnerable and in constant danger anywhere. Although it may be a negative representation it emphasizes fear and danger, which is highly required in any horror production.
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