Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Many horror movies have a rating of either 15 or 18, due to the graphic content such as blood, gore, sexual themes etc. Our target audience is teens but does not include any references to blood, gore or sexual themes. One way our media product represents social groups is through mise-en-scene. The actors are usually on their mobile phones where it is teens stereotypically for teens to be quite anti-social and always texting or communicating on their smartphones. Also, the setting shows a young social group as in an alley you wouldn't tend to find adults unless they are walking through whereas teens use this type of place to get up to trouble and all sorts. The setting is important as it creates a narrative and creates enigma such as the audience wondering "Why are they there", "What are they doing there" and to think a bad event is about to happen. The clothes work by the actors are casual, typical clothing on teenagers and is a representation of their age and gender. Age is one major way of representing the social class in the film opening. Young characters like teens are shown to be violent, vulnerable, unreliable and trouble makers. This will hep the audience wanting to know what happens later on the film.