Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our horror film, Slaughter School, the main character is a teenage girl. She wears girly clothing (a short dress with leggings and studded boots, and a fur coat that can be seen on the floor at the start) and wears her hair in a feminine way (down and straight). She acts in a weak and nervous way at the threats surrounding her (she gasps at the deadly message on the whiteboard and holds her hands up to her face), and she also displays a rather unintelligent personality as she goes closer to the source of supposed danger when the door slams. We have represented teenage girls as easily scared, timid, overtly girly and slightly dim-witted, and we feel that we have represented them in a stereotypical way according to our genre, as this is how teenage girls are represented in most horror films. For instance, Casey Becker in Scream and Paige Edwards in House of Wax, who are both killed like our main character, display similar traits, such as: not act intelligently in their threatening situation, wearing girly, fashionable clothing and gasping/screaming a lot, showing that we have indeed represented teenage girls in a similar way to other related media texts.


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