2-How does your media product represent particular social groups?

2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

From our film we used teenage girls to be in our film, which is our target age group. As we used ourselves to be in film, we thought it was be a good idea if we weren't all the same age, so we did 17-20, in that area of age. 

We represented the youngest in the group in the film (Cassie and Scarlet), as wearing lots of make-up, Cassie's age was 17 and mine(Scarlet) was 18. We wore lots of make-up to show we haven't really grew up and that we can't leave the house without make-up on. From representing that other girl in the same age group can relate and see the film, to see what they look like in different people eyes.

We did a lot of stereotyping in our film, just so we made clear on what our personality is like. As I (Scarlet in film) was a goth/emo, I had to dress up as what they are, wearing over the top black make-up, so girls who are into that style can see the film and see what they look like in social. 

Riley in our film is a real girly girl, we represented that by her wearing cream and blue colours, which was the in colour at the time filming, girls who like that style would gone to see it so they can she the style in the film.

To show Eva as being 20 and to bring the audience to that was hard to show and stereotype, first we changed the way she dressed, more formal and less make-up on, this shows she is more grown up than the others. People who are 20 could see how they are represented in the film. 

Also we all go to school/ uni, so any school groups would view the film to go with their friends, so they can relate of the school life.

The killer was hard to represent, so we did it by stereotype, when you look at gangs today they where hoodies so you can't see their faces, smoke, do drugs and sometimes carry knifes. 

So for the killer we gave him a dark look to him, so we gave him a black hoodie to wear and to make sure it quite far up so we don't see his hair or face. We did this to keep the mystery of who it is, this could of helped with the scared and unapproachable character as is identity isnt reviled. 

We also gave him dark blue jeans so his character is dark and unknown. 

From giving the stereotype as a gangster, we also gave him a knife (fake), to hold in the shot, to show that these people are dangerous and not to be talked to. We didn't give the killer a fake gun because we wanted to keep to the stereotype of the gangster idea.

Not only that but we used the villain as a man, not a women. We did this because the men are known to have more power other women, so we left the women as the weaker sex in the film opening. 

Plus villain in films do normal where fairly dark colours such as black, red and green, we dressed up the killer in black so the audience knew who the bad person was, also showing the knife. So people might go see the film to see how those sort of people are viewed in social and what other people think of people who dress up in hoodies.

This picture is of the stereotype of what happened when I typed 'person in hoodie' on the web, so we thought that people with hoodies are seen as dangerous. As the hoodie is also black is still leads into the colour serotype in wearing black.

This picture is what our killer in our film looks like, and this is what he wears in the scene when Scarlet gets killed.