How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media
product represents social groups in a quite stereotypical way. Many films of
the physiological thriller genre use stereotypes like women being weak or men
being the hero. Our film also uses these stereotypes as it represents a group
of young women as weak and vulnerable.
The way our
main character Emma goes from being shown as an equal to being shown looking up
at the others from the floor, using a low angle shot shows that she has fully
conformed to stereotype as she has lost all power and is now even weaker and
less superior than the rest of the girls.
During our
opening scene a close up is used to show the worried expressions of the two
girls, this conforms to the stereotype of young women in psychological
thrillers as they are shown to be vulnerable and intimidated especially by the
unknown.
The killer
in our project always remains unknown, however the title sequence suggests it
could be a male which also imitates the gender stereotypes of the genre, as the
killer is usually a man.
However, as
the identity of the killer in our media project remains unknown to the audience
it could be a woman, which would subvert to the expectations of stereotypes in
the genre therefore it is unconventional and unexpected.
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