Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups

In our final production, the main character is Amelia (Played by Ellie Plummer). 

Women:  In our film woman are represented positively in our film as the lead character is a female and she is also the protagonist. However, she is represented as being vulnerable and weak because she is in an isolated setting and Is getting strange unknown calls on her phone. We got the idea of unknown calls from the movie “Scream” because the character Casey is seen in the kitchen and the phone rings, when she picks it up,  she thinks it’s a friend playing a trick on her, but then she is asked if she has a boyfriend and she lies to the person down the phone and says that she doesn’t.  Furthermore we hoped to achieve this representation of being venerable and weak by the use of mise-en-scene. For example, the costumes that we have used on our character are appropriate for her age, the reason it we chose appropriate clothing is that she is in further education so she needs to look formal and well educated but also because we wanted to go against the hypersexual view of teenagers. The character is easy to connect with as she is very respectable, even though she doesn’t say much. The character isn’t shown as “damsel in distress” because she tries and figure out why the blood is on the trees, and who is in the woods.  

Youth: We have represented the youth as vulnerable and clumsy, but yet still independent.  We hoped to achieve this by using mise-en-scene, by things such as props, the phone is the main prop. The phone have cracks on the screen and this can connote that she is a typical teenage girl, who is somewhat careless and clumsy. You can tell that she is independent because she stays in an isolated room, alone doing school work and then is seen walking in the woods, without a group of friends or a sexual partner. This goes against most horror conventions.