Question 2: How does your media
product represent particular social groups?
My main character was a blonde girl, she doesn’t have a name and
we know nothing about her. Her role was to represent an ex-girlfriend who has
never got over or let go of her ex and instead has begun to obsess over him and
plots to murder him as well. This is hinted at by the crossing out of the other
male, assuming his was again an ex-boyfriend and the use of the ‘weapon’ also
gives the hint to violence.
I used a female main character because it plays with the
standard conventions of a horror thriller film. I developed this character so
that she seemed mysterious and so the viewer’s aren’t quite sure what to think
of her. I thought it’d be best for my main character to wear a black dress, but
one of my audience members thought it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ for her to wear and
that tracksuit bottoms would be better suited, but I don’t agree with this. The
significance of the bloody glass is to show the audience that this character is
dangerous and should be feared and the blood shows us that maybe this girl has
already killed someone before. For her make up I just left her quite natural
but with bright red lips, I chose to have the lips red as connotations of red
is danger and blood, yet lips are meant to be feminine and seductive. They also
clash so well with her pale skin, blonde hair and white mask. Her feminine look also clashed with the dark
and old looking setting, I thought this looked effective.
Her role as a woman clashes with everyday stereotypes of a
villain. As a woman she would be expected to be lady-like, soft and caring.
Whereas as she is playing the villain she would be expected to act differently
and in such ways as, evil, manipulative and sly. This is the opposite of a
caring woman stereotype. Because of this I think it shows us that women can
play a whole variety of roles and that they don’t just have to be the standard
‘damsel in distress’ that we as an audience are more likely to expect.
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